Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

["Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, April 2, 2015 2:55 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 13:08 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> CentOS releases are NOT the same as EUS and have never been .. yet that
>>  seems to be what people expect.  We want there to be no doubt on this
>>  issue.
>
> Is there a commercial motive for this 'unwelcome by most' change ?
>
> If Centos is the same as RHEL then RH can loose valuable sales income
> because customers, actual and potential, use free Centos. However if
> Centos version numbers are vastly different from RHEL version numbers
> and there is no reliable method of equating Centos sub-versions with
> RHEL sub-versions, RH gains extra sales because of the uncertainty of
> Centos being 'just like' reliable RHEL.

Indeed. And some conspiracy theorist might add this happened after CentOS
"marrying" RH (well, getting tighter relations that is) ;-)

Just a joke to put down everybody's fighting mood (or likely switching
fire onto myself ;-(

Valeri

>
> Just a casual thought.
>
>
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>
> Paul.
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