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My thought: They're trying to be Red Hat, except intentionally making their CentOS easy and inevitable.
by mst 11y ago
My thought: They're trying to be Red Hat, except intentionally making their CentOS easy and inevitable.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's a disturbing, but interesting, thought. I wonder how often this has played out. Might be worth considering explicitly in a risk assessment of OSS-centric startups.
- kentonv 11y agoNote that while the set of "enterprise add-ons" we launched today are open source, we are not promising that all future add-ons will be open source. In particular future products we have planned that specifically target the needs of very large organizations may be proprietary. Once the contracts are so big that it's cheaper for the corp to maintain their own fork, then obviously our stay-open strategy breaks down, but we have a plan for that. (That said, I'm still looking for ways to make it work as OSS if possible.)