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So why did they buy it in the first place then?
by dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago
So why did they buy it in the first place then?
- tapoxi 6y agoIt's an easy way to acquire a ton of engineers that are incredibly familiar with your core product.
- orev 6y agoDo you mean customers, or the engineers building CentOS? There are only a handful of people working on CentOS.
- goatinaboat 6y agoSo why did they buy it in the first place then? Acquiring a competitor and shutting it down is standard SV business as usual. Just took a bit longer this time.
- tsjq 6y agosounds like dropping CentOS was IBM decision , coz they own RedHat now.
- geofft 6y agoBecause they previously needed it in order to do open-source work that was based on RHEL instead of Fedora, and because as a volunteer-run project, it was not being super responsively maintained. Here is a comment from a long-time Red Hat engineer explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351295