One question: If Red hat has been "purchased" by IBM....what happens to the GPL license?..after all IBM is a "proprietary" company. What will happen to the licensing of CEntOS?....Fedora?...truly troubling times. I might have to go down the Yellow Brick Road and take up Debian as my regular OS. 😢
EGO II On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:23 PM Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:30 PM Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> > wrote: > > On 10/31/18 1:32 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> > >> as far as I can see Centos is owned by Red Hat and so by IBM if the > >> offer goes through, Guthub is owned by Microsoft. Increasing > >> concentration of services and so control is routine, just not what I'd > >> prefer to see. > > > > First off, CentOS may be _affiliated_ with Red Hat, but they are not > > _owned_ by Red Hat. CentOS is run by centos.org and is a community- > > supported program. > > "The ownership of the CentOS trademarks, along with the requirement that > the board have a majority of Red Hat employees makes it clear that, for > all the talk of partnership and joining forces, this is really an > acquisition by Red Hat. The CentOS project will live on, but as a > subsidiary of Red Hat—much as Fedora is today." > > from https://lwn.net/Articles/579551/ > > "Furthermore, some of the existing CentOS Core members are moving to > take up roles at Red Hat, as a part of their sponsorship of the CentOS > Project, allowing these people to work on the Project as their primary > job function. This includes Johnny Hughes Jr, Jim Perrin, Fabian > Arrotin, and myself. We will be working with and operating out of the > Red Hat Open Source and Standards team in the CTO's Office." > > from > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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