My interest here is if as suggested in the comments and the blog post from Karanbir Singh, CENTOS becomes a sort of in-between Fedora and RHEL (with the less stability that seems to imply to me), what is SLs contingency plan? Or does the community think that it really doesn't matter because SL can still build from RHEL sources, whatever CENTOS does?

One thing I see this doing is if CENTOS drifts towards Fedora, it's going to give the third party vendors a bit of a headache as right now I tend to see CENTOS get supported because they "have" to support RHEL. And that's where I really need SL to still be compatible with RHEL.

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University


-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken Teh
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:46 AM
To: Dag Wieers
Cc: Patrick J. LoPresti; Jos Vos; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious

On 01/17/2014 05:32 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> To put it in perspective, this deal is huge, not all information is 
> available, so it is normal that some people are speculating, share 
> opinions, or provide answers. Even Karanbir is involved, so some of 
> the speculation can result in new information right here.
>
> So I don't think there is a need for action (at least not at this point).
>

Agreed.

Let's keep the discussion to topics that are relevant to the future of Scientific Linux.  Not the merits of capitalism vs communism, the motivations of companies, etc.