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A comment on June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux. Parent comment

Re:June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of Cent... by monkeywork on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:45AM (#38881131)
because having CentOS lead to Oracle Linux being a thing which allowed big competitor to offer what was essentially 100% compatible product to your own while undercutting your support costs.

I don't think RHEL/IBM cares about the small losses on CentOS/Rocky/Alma/etc what they found was hurting them was companies like Oracle

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Re:June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of Cent... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:56AM (#38881302)
I don't think that's correct; AFAIK OEL has always pulled directly from RHEL sources. That is, they were a sibling, not a downstream of CentOS. I am open to the idea that CentOS was basically collateral damage as Red Hat attempted to block Oracle, but that's not the same thing.
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Re:June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of Cent... by monkeywork on Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:05AM (#38888890)
That's what I'm suggesting - the only way RHEL could block OEL is to also kill off CentOS as we knew it.
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