CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @04:48PM (#7020216)

The absolute worst that can happen is a return to the state of today. Also, CentOS didn't do anything new and creative and visionary that all. Their goal from the beginning was to replicate RHEL with all the non-free bits (mostly artwork and trademarks) replaced.

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by geekowl on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:21PM (#7020422)

The concern isn't to have anything new and creative. That's not always the goal of OSS. The goal is the have free and open equal alternatives to corporate-controlled software. Debian, for example, is likely the last of the truly unencumbered distros.

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by cgh on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:33PM (#7020475)

What about Slackware, Gentoo, Arch...?

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:37PM (#7020491)

Tell me what CentOS will no longer be able to do that they could previously.

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by geekowl on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:46PM (#7020539)

The idea is to have a distro with no "corporate" oversight -- an independent distro. This is the reasons why I heavily lean Debian and OpenBSD, because they are independent.

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by sciurus on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @09:50PM (#7021373)

Since CentOS blindly reproduced a product generated by a corporation, I'm having a hard time understanding your argument.

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Re:CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @05:49PM (#7020568)

I'm trying to get you to describe your reasoning about what actually differs if a corporation is involved. "Independent" is not in itself a word that confers any benefit.

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