[ballard]

RH may try to cripple CentOS, gather user statistics or advertise to promote more consumption of RHEL instead.

"Keep your friends close, ..." because it's just business.

[kbenson]

More likely they'll provide a more official way to convert CentOS to RHEL and buy a support contract. It's always been possible, and many people use CentOS with the understanding that if anything get really crazy, they can do just that an buy support.

[McGlockenshire]

Any attempt to do so would be amazingly obvious to everyone and would be bad enough to force a fork. Redhat isn't stupid.

This smells like FUD.