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I somehow missed that Red Hat started sponsoring CentOS a while back, and owns the trademarks. I mean, money and cooperation is great and all, but how could a

I somehow missed that Red Hat started sponsoring CentOS a while back, and owns the trademarks. I mean, money and cooperation is great and all, but how could anyone have expected CentOS Linux to continue for long when Red Hat has such a fundamental conflict of interest? Edit: here's the HN post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019914

Pxtl 6y ago
Yeah, I assume this ends with somebody forking CentOS into another "redhat without redhat branding and license costs".
- deng 6y ago
  Maybe CERN will revitalize Scientific Linux.
  - navanchauhan 6y ago
    Scientific Linux[0] is still maintained ( Although, by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and not CERN ) [0] https://scientificlinux.org https://scientificlinux.org
    - j0057 6y ago
      There's no RHEL8 equivalent of Scientific Linux.
    - deng 6y ago
      Yes, maintained, but no new versions since they switched to CentOS. https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/ https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/
- FireBeyond 6y ago
  There is already an announcement for Rocky Linux, from the same person who started CentOS, doing a Monty from MySQL.
Proven 6y ago
I believe that is not entirely accurate. IIRC the main maintainer had started working for RedHat (and didn't disclose that) before CentOS became a Red Hat community project.
milesvp 6y ago
To be fair, I truly thought MySQL was dead in the water when Oracle purchased them 12 years ago, but as far as I can tell MySQL continues to be well supported with new features being added. So I no longer know what to think about these kinds of acquisitions.
- speedcoder 6y ago
  MelissaDB
  - mldbk 6y ago
    MariaDB?