[andyjpb]

Reading between the lines, I assume that it's because Red Hat / IBM own that trademark and they've decided to stop using it for that project.

In principle, there's no reason why another-CentOS couldn't come about in the same way as CentOS came about originally.

...but now that CentOS has been professionally funded for so long, the bar is higher than it used to be.

[paulryanrogers]

Actually there is still Springdale Linux and soon to be Rocky Linux, from a CentOS founder.