Debian is moving to the BSD kernel. How does Scientific BSD sound to you? Jean-Victor Côté, M.Sc.(Sciences économiques), (CPA, CMA), Post MBA J'ai aussi passé d'autres examens, dont les examens CFA. J'ai un profil Viadeo sommaire: http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/jean-victor.cote I also have a LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2367003&trk=tab_pro > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:45:01 -0800 > Subject: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious > From: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > > RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making > money. Every action by any company -- literally every single action, > ever -- is motivated by that goal. > > The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this > move is going to make them money? > > Those were statements of fact. What follows is merely my opinion. > > Right now, anybody can easily get for free the same thing Red Hat > sells, and their #1 competitor is taking their products, augmenting > them, and reselling them. If you think Red Hat perceives this as being > in their financial interest, I think you are out of your mind. > > SRPMs will go away and be replaced by an ever-moving git tree. Red Hat > will make it as hard as legally possible to rebuild their commercial > releases. The primary target of this move is Oracle, but Scientific > Linux will be collateral damage. > > I consider all of this pretty obvious, but perhaps I am wrong. I hope I am. > > - Pat