What's in a (CentOS) version number?

Posted Jun 11, 2014 15:27 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755)
Parent article: What's in a (CentOS) version number?

> By one measure, CentOS is sustaining freeloaders who want to benefit from Red Hat's work without paying for it. By another, CentOS helps Red Hat by bringing users into its ecosystem; some of those users eventually become paying Red Hat customers.

And, by the only measure that *matters*: Red Hat *would not exist* had it not had the shoulders of giants to stand on, for free. So for all the labor that Red Hat has admittedly added to the Linux ecosystem, I remain somewhat jaded about any complaints it may have about CentOS.

And don't even get me started about their enabling of systemd.

What's in a (CentOS) version number?

Posted Jun 11, 2014 15:41 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

I don't think I've heard anyone involved with RH complaining about CentOS (or Scientific Linux). Oracle Unbreakable Linux, on the other hand...

What's in a (CentOS) version number?

Posted Jun 11, 2014 15:49 UTC (Wed) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link]

For free, I think that's not exactly the opinion of the engineers working on the company payroll. They are not just repacking free software made by hobbyist on their free time as your comment seems to imply. As seen on the list of contribution http://community.redhat.com/software/, in fact, that's quite the contrary, with people being paid full time on the job. It is a bit unfair to totally skip that part and the engineering effort that is made and sustained by the company.

What's in a (CentOS) version number?

Posted Jun 11, 2014 18:51 UTC (Wed) by Fats (guest, #14882) [Link]

> And, by the only measure that *matters*: Red Hat *would not exist* had it not had the shoulders of giants to stand on, for free

And Linux would not stand as high today as an OS without Red Hat.