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Honest question from a layman: what happens with the AWS-flavored CentOS now that the upstream distro was dropped?

• arbitrage 6y ago
  Short term: Amazon pays licensing fees to RedHat to keep the product going, if necessary. I don't know if they're at that stage yet, and big companies can have whatever arrangements they would like between them behind the curtains. Long term: Amazon develops a new Distro unbeholden to RedHat/IBM. Only a matter of time.
  • QUFB 6y ago
    No, they just buy Canonical.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
      Switching from an RPM distro to a Debian derivative is a much bigger jump than building from RH sources directly.
• deleted 6y ago
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