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Weirdness at CentOS

Posted Jul 30, 2009 20:42 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Weirdness at CentOS by BackSeat
Parent article: Weirdness at CentOS

If you say so.

I know, however, that the likelihood that customers:
A) Understand what CentOS is.
while simultaneously:
B) Not understand how CentOS is run.
And...
C) Don't trust your judgement yet are willing to give you money.

Are much much much smaller group then it would seem at first blush. Within 3-4 days nobody is going to remember this thing happening, if they knew at all, except for a small group of people.

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Weirdness at CentOS

Posted Jul 30, 2009 20:49 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

CentOS has customers?

Weirdness at CentOS

Posted Jul 30, 2009 21:34 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

No. People that use CentOS have customers.

The question is how much this flap is going to color the perceptions of your customers (and potential customers) towards _you_ if you are using CentOS to house their services.

I don't think it's a big deal as the chances that customer simultanously have enough of a clue to know what CentOS is while at the same time not understanding what is going on is rather small.