December 15th, 2020 at 8:55 PM
One of the RHEL devs wrote a very lengthy post describing their thought processs. It’s fairly clear that our suspicions were confirmed. Honestly, they do have every right to do as they please. They are a for-profit company. But for those in the market that CentOS was in, they simply can’t get upset with people for looking elsewhere than their stream replacement. It caught people off guard and they pretty much brought that one on themselves.
And I get it. They need to make a profit. But I think they shot themselves in the foot on this one and probably did more harm than good to their bottom line. Less users of CentOS means much less community testing and support, putting more pressure onto RHEL to foot the bill. It literally seems counterproductive to nix it, even for their bottom line.
And they are a little upset that people expected the 10 year support to mean 10 year support. And yes, it’s basically a RHEL clone, but 1) it was community maintained and they bought it, and 2) Ubuntu is in this market with the same business model, so competition and a large, vibrant community shouldn’t really come as a surprise. It’s just the nature of the beast. It comes with the territory of being in open source.
https://crunchtools.com/before-you-get-m...ink-about/
And I get it. They need to make a profit. But I think they shot themselves in the foot on this one and probably did more harm than good to their bottom line. Less users of CentOS means much less community testing and support, putting more pressure onto RHEL to foot the bill. It literally seems counterproductive to nix it, even for their bottom line.
And they are a little upset that people expected the 10 year support to mean 10 year support. And yes, it’s basically a RHEL clone, but 1) it was community maintained and they bought it, and 2) Ubuntu is in this market with the same business model, so competition and a large, vibrant community shouldn’t really come as a surprise. It’s just the nature of the beast. It comes with the territory of being in open source.
https://crunchtools.com/before-you-get-m...ink-about/
