On 01/08/2014 02:14 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On >> Behalf Of Yves Bellefeuille >> Sent: den 8 januari 2014 01:36 >> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red >> Hat >> >>> With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red >>> Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining >>> forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards >>> team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation >>> beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies. >> Wow. I'm not entirely sure this is good news. We'll see. > My first thought as well. Redhat already has Fedora as a testing ground. So > for Redhat acquiring another free distribution makes me wary, unnecessarily so > maybe... > > I hope CentOS will continue to be The "free" stable enterprise solution. > -- > //Sorin Think about this. RDO, GlusterFS, oVirt, and OpenShift Origin are all Red Hat community offerings that need to have a long lived community base OS to speed their usage and growth. All of those also have a paid equivalent (Open Stack Platform, Storage, RHEV, and Open Shift) where Red Hat gets paying customers if the community projects thrive. It is absolutely in Red Hat's best interest for all of the community software listed above to do well. Red Hat wants their paid platforms to continue to be successful, they therefore want their community projects to be successful. CentOS and Red Hat are joining forces to make those (and other) community projects more successful. It is a simple as that and it is in both the CentOS Project's and Red Hat's best interest for both of us to thrive and grow. Fedora, a Linux distribution to deliver "state of the art" features, is also always going to be "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... Next". Fedora is also a great Linux distribution in its own right. It is obviously still very much in Red Hat's best interest for Fedora to continue to grow. Is Red Hat in business to make money ... of course they are. Does Red Hat make more money or less money if their community projects do well? Of course they make more money if more people use their community projects. Red Hat wants CentOS, Fedora, RDO, GlusterFS, oVirt, OpenShift Origin, and every other project where they provide support to do thrive and grow. Is it in the CentOS Project's best interest for RHEL and Fedora to continue to grow ... of course it is. Karanbir Singh (the Chair of the CentOS Project board) and Robyn Bergeron (the Fedora Project Leader) have both posted blog entries that discuss these items in further detail: http://www.karan.org/blog/2014/01/07/as-a-community-for-the-community/ http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/centos-welcome/ This is not rocket science folks. We all want all of these open source projects to do well. I am very excited about this arrangement and I think we all win. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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