[dotancohen]

  > Whats missing is an analysis of why CentOS failed.

CentOS did not fail. CentOS was a wild success. Like the vast majority of tech success storeis, CentOS was picked up by a major player and turned against its roots to protect the incumbent moneymaker.

But the terrific thing about the GPL, for all its flaws and despite its crazy founder, is that it ensures the health and longevity of a project despite well-funded attacks against it.

[mbreese]

It failed... it is not able to sustain itself.

Whatever replaces it either needs a better business model (to pay for maintenance, RHEL, Ubuntu) or more community involvement (work for free, Debian). But when you’re effectively repackaging another distro, it’s probably hard to get other people excited enough to help.

[someperson]

I don't think anybody is against CentOS being an onboarding ramp to paid RHEL deployments.

CentOS is actually Red Hat's greatest advertisement

If IBM Red Hat wanted to push for RHEL upgrades, they should have changed the CentOS support window from 10 years to 3-5 years. If they had to wind back the EOL for CentOS date from 2029, they should have at least move it back to eg, 2024 not 2021.