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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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