On 12/16/20 10:39 AM, Frank Saporito wrote:
I may be cynical, but I think this is a business decision.
By gaining control of CentOS, RedHat gained control of its biggest
(apparent) competitor. This action should increase the value of
RedHat. A few years later, IBM buys RedHat for a staggering 34
BILLION dollars. I would expect that before the purchase, there is an
internal "PowerPoint" slide discussing the elimination of CentOS
Linux. Despite the commentary otherwise, I believe CentOS Stream is a
type of "beta" release. RedHat can release changes into CentOS Stream
to make sure it is all good before the point release of RHEL to the
paying customers.
Or maybe not.
That is exactly my thought. IBM is a very big company, 'physically' as
well as capital wise and they do top notch, state of the art, research and
development, and they can pretty much solve any problem. The only
problem that IBM always had a problem with dealing with is their
competition.
(The numerous, researchers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers they
employ, tremendously increases their overhead, hence everything IBM is
expensive.
(I expect that to happen to their licensing too, for redhat in the future)
FCS
On 12/15/20 10:59 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 12/15/20 7:59 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
Why would RedHat invest millions more
in buying the CentOS process just to have CentOS act as the beta?
Indeed.
Often, when you can't find a reasonable answer to a question, it is
because the premise of the question itself is wrong.
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