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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by rwmj on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:26AM (#35339725)
That one was a mistake, but also nothing at all to do with IBM. We (Red Hat) did that to ourselves.
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by arjvik on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:23PM (#35345579)
Curious for what the rationale behind the decision was?
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Re:Red Hat is 30 years old by bonzini on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:26AM (#35353369)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34988259

It was purely a communication issue and a tempest in a teapot. There are great replacements for CentOS Linux, and Red Hat employees are now all working on CentOS Stream (development is done in Stream) instead of having just a handful of people doing the rebuilds.

I for one don't miss having to ask permission months in advance to backport a bugfix to a weird RHEL package! A lot more decisions can be taken in autonomy by developers.

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