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by dimitar 4361 days ago
"CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat." ?

It used to be from a "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor". Something changed at some point.

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They got official support is what changed.

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-ha...

Back in January there was a "[blank] is joining [blank]!" type of announcement.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua...

Redhat employs some of the CentOS people now, although their build process still seems to be pretty separate.