CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it
CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it
Posted Jun 24, 2023 13:55 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: CentOS was nearly dead when RH acquired it by nim-nim
Parent article: Kuhn: A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
> But most Centos users had no intention to contribute anything but requests, as if software wrote qa-ed and packaged itself.
"It's work/valuable when I have to do the packaging/testing, but not when $someone_else has to do it."
I'm reminded of the parallels with arguments that it's too much work to package & qa things properly for $distro, so we should all use upstream-provided flatpaks/appimages/tarballs/whatever instead. So it's clearly a lot of work, even from the original software author's perspecive. And the end-user's too, which is why everyone wants RHEL, just at zero cost and effort.