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The CentOS project itself called Greg a founding member in a blog post interviewing him in 2019, well before the Red Hat/CentOS events in December 2020. https:

The CentOS project itself called Greg a founding member in a blog post interviewing him in 2019, well before the Red Hat/CentOS events in December 2020. https://blog.centos.org/2019/03/greg-kurtzer-centos-founder/ https://blog.centos.org/2019/03/greg-kurtzer-centos-founder/ For what it's worth, The Register refers to Greg as a CentOS founder in their first Rocky article: https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux If you have some references to back your assertions, I would very much like to see them. You're not the first person I've seen assert that Greg shouldn't be called a founder of CentOS, but I've yet to see that backed up. Also, you seem to minimize the non-technical, especially legal, work around setting up and maintaining a distribution, but I don't understand why. In terms of legal work, trademarks need to be registered, non-profits need to be set up to fund critical items like build infrastructure, and more. Each of these seems like exceptionally valuable, if not critical, to the success of a distribution.

carlwgeorge 4y ago
That CentOS blog post is an interview with Greg. The source for Greg being the founder is...himself. That post was supposed to be the first in a series of interviews with people who were around in the early days of CentOS, which is mentioned in the second to last paragraph. Those interviews happened, but they were never published because the interviewees disagreed with the premise set forth in the first post about Greg being the founder. It was decided that publishing additional interviews with conflicting claims would not be a good look for the project. All other articles referring to Greg as the founder use this blog post or Greg's own claims elsewhere as the source. Greg is the root source for all claims of himself being the founder. None of the other early CentOS folks have backed up his claims, despite him asking them to. There are even people in the Rocky project that have asked him to stop claiming this. Greg's response is typically to post archive links that show 1) he started the cAos Foundation and 2) CentOS started in the cAos Foundation. These are facts that no one is disputing. What is disputed is whether his level of involvement in CentOS itself merits declaring himself the founder many years after the fact.

carlwgeorge 4y ago

That CentOS blog post is an interview with Greg. The source for Greg being the founder is...himself. That post was supposed to be the first in a series of interviews with people who were around in the early days of CentOS, which is mentioned in the second to last paragraph. Those interviews happened, but they were never published because the interviewees disagreed with the premise set forth in the first post about Greg being the founder. It was decided that publishing additional interviews with conflicting claims would not be a good look for the project. All other articles referring to Greg as the founder use this blog post or Greg's own claims elsewhere as the source. Greg is the root source for all claims of himself being the founder. None of the other early CentOS folks have backed up his claims, despite him asking them to. There are even people in the Rocky project that have asked him to stop claiming this. Greg's response is typically to post archive links that show 1) he started the cAos Foundation and 2) CentOS started in the cAos Foundation. These are facts that no one is disputing. What is disputed is whether his level of involvement in CentOS itself merits declaring himself the founder many years after the fact.