On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:07 PM, David Sommerseth
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> But the rest is pure garbage.  Red Hat has been for quite some years very
> considerate and supportive to open source communities, even if they've not
> been in-house projects.  And as several has stated, the Red Hat's mission
> statement is quite clear, something which you seem to completely ignore:

I can vouch for this, personally and professionally. Even among former
Red Hat personnel I know, "the open source is strong in this one".

> It cannot be said much clearer.  And now the work of the CentOS community
> has an even clearer way to contribute back to the Red Hat.  *That* is a big
> win. Suddenly CentOS can help their upstream to improve.  Red Hat can get
> better products based on contribution from an officially bigger community,
> which again rains down on the CentOS and SL users.

I'd actually say they, and we are helping the entire free software and
open source community. There's a great deal that is done right, which
Scientific Linux is taking clear advantage just as it was intended,
and which CentOS also does.