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>RedHat bought the CentOS project and they did it in the service of RHEL It's funny, when a corporation buy's a community and then decides something without as
by nix23 6y ago
>RedHat bought the CentOS project and they did it in the service of RHEL
It's funny, when a corporation buy's a community and then decides something without asking the community and even cut the support-time, who could imagine that people get angry?? Has RedHat the same marketing firm as Oracle?
- pjmlp 6y agoNah, maybe it is about time people learn to pay for their tools like in other professions.
- nix23 6y agoNice, then i wait until RedHat/IBM gives out billions of dollars from the software they sold and took for free.
- pjmlp 6y agoNext time choose a better license.
- type0 6y agoRed Hat is and was possible because of the copyleft licenses. Look up their history.
- pjmlp 6y agoSo? Get Fedora then.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoWhat does Fedora have to do with anything? It's a separate distro
- drran 6y agoRedHat is the major contributor to Linux ecosystem, so they are not using the free software for free. They pay back, as intended. For bad example, look at Apple or Amazon.
- nix23 6y agoThat was not the point, don't try to change my words.
- NineStarPoint 6y agoSounds like a great way to stifle the innovation that tech is known for. The amount of well made free options in the tech sphere is part of why we can so efficiently start new companies.
- nix23 6y agoHe probably paid 10k of dollars for his Compiler like in the 80's.
- pjmlp 6y agoI surely not only paid for my compilers (started coding in 1986), also do donations every time I download a distro, buy books from all open source projects that are relevant for my work.
- type0 6y agoNot everyone is as fortunate as you are, some cs students in poor countries might also need a stable server OS that is not Debian. You could argue they shouldn't but this is in the spirit of open source: non-discriminatory access regardless of the economic situation. Do not reduce it to donationaware argument. When you buy RHEL you are buying the support access and not anything else.
- devmor 6y agoGreat idea, then do you think the corporations using our open source software should pay us billions in back revenue as well?
- c0l0 6y agoI always found the "C" in CentOS, the "Community Enterprise OS"... awkward. I admit I haven't been following the project very closely over the years, but true community projects look different. Look at Debian, for example - internal drama and a at times gory, public decision making process. People with very different perspectives on a unfiying vision coming together to find solutions to the problems they have, and sometimes even create. It's slow, it's not as efficient as it could be - but it's a mix of democratic and meritocratic principles that is without equal, and that, I think, will stand the test of time for as long as there is such a thing as a Free Software/Open Source community to speak of. Now CentOS's practical goal - repackaging RHEL gratis - isn't really compatible with what a true community project like Debian is about, in my view. There's no real way for the project to steer away from whatever RHEL chooses to deliver, in neither a positive or negative direction. In that sense, "CentOS Streams", as a new upstream-of-sorts for RHEL, is much more "C"-enabling that what CentOS has been before - because a community (if one will emerge, or maybe it already has) can actually take action to change their own fate, and not totally depend on whatever their Enterprise Linux Overlords decide to make happen. A pity we're not really looking for this kind of thing where I work now, and most current users of CentOS probably weren't really in it for the "C", but more for the "entOS" part. They were looking for being able to rapidly roll out RHEL clone installations, without having to pay or care about any stupid and impeding commercial licensing restrictions at all. Well, the free lunch at that particular place is over, it seems. That said, I'm curious to see what will take CentOS's place in that regard.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoThe whole idea of "buying a community" shows that they didn't have a clue what they were doing. Or didn't care.