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Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes by cyberpunk on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:48PM (#36484844)
IBM make a sheadload of money, redhat also was doing absolutely fine on support sales (up 17% in 2022, according to 'el'google) -- if they are suddenly unable to pay their developers then, sure.

I don't think anyone is particularly surprised, or will miss them much. It's just kinda sad to see what was a reasonably happy opensource success story end with a giant corporation shutting down some of their releases out of protectionism.

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Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes by orf on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:40PM (#36485540)
You’re not in their sales funnel and lots of things look healthy from the outside that actually are not.
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Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes by asmor on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:49PM (#36485636)
it seems to correlate more with the ibm acquisition
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Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes by bonzini on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:14AM (#36489460)
People were expecting IBM to swallow Red Hat in 3 years. After 4 years some parts of RHEL have been opened (Fedora ELN, CentOS Stream) and some have been closed, overall I would call that a success even if IBM was behind this decision...
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Re:A response to the git.centos.org changes by awill on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:24PM (#36500634)
You're listing CentOS Stream as something IBM created? No. That was their excuse for cancelling CentOS. If you remember, it was universally unpopular.
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