On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:42 AM Rainer Duffner <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> > Am 08.12.2020 um 15:32 schrieb Phelps, Matthew <mphelps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >:
> >
> > This is really, really bad for the majority of us using CentOS.
> >
>
>
>
> Of course it is.
>
>
> > Is there any way we can lobby for the reversal of this decision? Remember
> > that the -devel mailing list, and IRC channels *do not* represent the
> vast
> > majority of CentOS users. Most of us are just sysadmins trying to keep
> our
> > systems that have been using CentOS for many, many years running and our
> > procedures for installing, and patching systems working after whatever
> > changes have been mysteriously decided upon, and forced on us.
> >
> > We will be forced to look at other distributions now; and forced to do a
> > ton of unnecessary work to deal with this.
>
>
>
> The reality is that it was always on borrowed time.
>
> Getting RHEL without paying for it and with slight delays in updates (most
> people don’t even update that often anyway) wasn’t going to be sustainable,
> ever.
>
> If your business case resolves around being able to freeload on the work
> of others, then there’s a serious problem with the business case.
>
I DO NOT WORK FOR A BUSINESS!! (Yes, I'm yelling. Sorry, but I am well and
truly pissed off!) We have no budget for RHEL.
>
> And I say that as somebody who has installed a large portion of the
> CentOS8 (and 7) servers at work.
>
> Not sure what we ourselves are going to do about it, though.
>
> I would hate to switch to Ubuntu for the stuff I like CentOS most for (for
> some, it’s arguably not the greatest distro).
>
> We might end up licensing RHEL for that - and the rest maybe Fedora.
>
>
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