Hi Jarek and All,
My silence since my e-mail wasn't because I don't care about this 
subject, it was because I needed to get work done.

As was pointed out several times, I've thought about a merger or 
utilizing CentOS, several times, some more seriously than other.
Connie is on their development list and helps them whenever she can. 
Several CentOS developers are on this list, and they've helped up 
several times.
During this week, since Jarek sent the initial e-mail till I sent my 
"Troy's Opinion" e-mail, I had spent most of my time researching ways of 
merging.
But I found that this was getting in the say of doing anything.  So 
after a good nights sleep, after weighing everything everything, I made 
my decision.

This doesn't mean we can't discuss ways of getting a scientific 
repository into CentOS.  Or discuss various packages and repositories 
that CentOS has into S.L..  Or even discuss how we could merge with 
CentOS?  Or if we should merge?

It meant exactly what I said.  I want to do SL5 just like we had 
planned.  I've still got alot of work to do.  Connie and others have 
alot of work to do.

I might have offended some people with my answer.  I apologize for that. 
  But I just had to get it written and back to work.  I do not feel that 
anyone offended me, I really don't.  I think we have a wonderful 
collection of developers, and users.

As a side note.  We actually have had much more contact with CentOS 
because of this discussion.

Thanks
Troy
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