[lproven]

True but misses the real point, which is that RH should never have acquired CentOS in the first place.

[JohnFen]

I don't think I missed the real point. That point was the major part of what I was saying.

Sadly, Red Hat is the Microsoft of the Linux world, and so I grieve for anything they touch.

[pamhalpert]

the community was dying, the single digit people maintaining it wanted to quit doing it

[lproven]

I've heard similar before. So? The problem with that for RH was what, exactly?

There was White Box Linux, Scientific Linux, PUIAS Linux, etc. And Oracle Linux of course.