Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 18, 2021 16:10 UTC (Sun) by pas (guest, #126462)
In reply to: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame by gdt
Parent article: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

> lack of interest by government regulators [...] sort of market failure which regulators exist to solve.

For the free version of a product? That always came with absolutely no warranty or other guarantees? This is (and always was) a known risk. Picking CentOS was always the cheap way of dealing with vendor and long term support risk. Now folks are free to buy a subscription from RH/IBM.

If states/governments want to solve this market inefficiency, they are also free to contribute to https://www.cip-project.org/ .

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 22, 2021 8:34 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link]

Yes, for a free product. Government regulates other free products for community safety, such as meals served by community food programs.

I don't understand your comment about a lack of warranty in the license. The public is not a party to that license, and so warranty or otherwise with another party is irrelevant to the public who bear the cost of future misuse of this unmaintained system.

At the present both regulation and regulators are not familiar with this particular form of pollution, and don't yet have a regulatory response. This episode is yet another example of the need for cyber security regulators to lift their eyes beyond government and military systems. As cyber security regulation stands today, IBM Red Hat will not even pay the costs of the negative externalities which will fall upon the non-contracting parties.