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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by ajsfoux234 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:49PM (#25448427)
Well, the same thing might happen with Rocky Linux as well :)
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by hnarn on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:53PM (#25448475)
“Anything can happen” is not an argument. It’s about quantified risk.
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by emayljames on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:31PM (#25449007)
Yes, and the 2 parties have very different motivates.
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by galaxyLogic on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:36PM (#25449737)
Yes but then somebody would make Rocky-2
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Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder by shawnz on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:49PM (#25449243)
It's unlikely they would sabotage their only competitive advantage though, whereas Oracle has lots of reasons to maintain an enterprise linux distribution besides just succeeding CentOS.
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