> > Very curious how CERN and Fermilab will respond to this.
> I guess that CERN was caught red-handed as well.

(wrong metaphor? you wanted "with pants down" or "off guard" or something like that?
there is no evidence that CERN was "in" on this change, yes?)

> They have already started to port their internal systems to CentOS8 according to the
> recent site report at HEPiX:
> https://indico.cern.ch/event/898285/contributions/4015535/attachments/2120621/3569557/CERN_Site_Report_-_HEPiX_Autumn_2020_v2.pdf

As one may remember, CERN Linux, SL and CentOS only exist because CERN could
not agree with Red Hat on the licensing scheme for LHC-scale computing.

(I guess, at the LHC scale, even small numbers like $1/license become unworkable).


BTW, in other news,

I see the CentOS wiki was changed to read "CentOS-8 full updates and Maintenance Updates"
from "May 2024 and May 2029" to "December 2021 and December 31, 2021",
see
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.centos.org_action_recall_About_Product&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=m57TS8KUJogsGkZGVKvoL8D7gIzlEIxZsrqSEhDOgqk&s=eQQfaXijQiDmBJz_iRNxOctSQXnzptQdtMj7Xk8N340&e= 
and
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.centos.org_action_recall_About_Product-3Faction-3Drecall-26rev-3D122&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=m57TS8KUJogsGkZGVKvoL8D7gIzlEIxZsrqSEhDOgqk&s=Hgd0S_7BGuuCKHIfyfpJaucFixwNwISvlHKpHhHwg4E&e= 


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