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I completely disagree that cracks are showing and I think you used two very weak examples in CentOS and Elastic. These were and always have been losing bets. E
by zelon88 6y ago
I completely disagree that cracks are showing and I think you used two very weak examples in CentOS and Elastic.
These were and always have been losing bets. Elastic has always bemoaned being open source, so everyone should have seen that coming. And CentOS died when they were bought by RHEL. Anyone who put their weight into these programs after those red flags went up were taking a risk.
And that's exactly why OSS is not cracking. Not even close. So CentOS and Elastic aren't open source anymore. Who cares. "But my workflow! How will I do xxx or yyy now?"
Do what you did before CentOS and Elastic. Find an open source alternative. If there aren't any and it's important enough make your own. The world will go on people.
Just like Gitlab jacking the price. They want you to assume that your choices are to either pay more or go without source control. It's up to you to be smart enough to say "I'll just find another source management solution that fits my budget."
- dralley 6y ago>So CentOS and Elastic aren't open source anymore. CentOS is still open source. Nothing is happening to the sources themselves. It's the work of taking those sources, stripping trademarks, building artifacts and distributing them as a near identical-clone of RHEL which is ending. Or at least, Red Hat doing that work at their own expense is ending. "Rocky" and "Alma" linux are picking up that work themselves, nothing prevents that from happening.
- hodgesrm 6y agoTo your point, there are already two alternatives for CentOS users: * AlmaLinux: https://almalinux.org/ https://almalinux.org/ * Rocky Linux: https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/ This looks like business as usual in open source.
- _-david-_ 6y agoNeither of which have ISOs yet.