On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:07 PM, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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.