CentOS - Apr 2021 - Centos versions in the future?

On 28/4/2021 1:23 ?.?., Gionatan Danti wrote:
> If the Springdale release is a 100% RH clone, why do different teams 
> (Alma and Rocky) are trying to re-package the same 100% 
> binary-compatible RH clone?
Simply because each one of these projects obviously wants to remain 
independent from the others, otherwise it would request to join forces 
with one of them.

Why they want to remain independent? Due to their vision and internal 
structure. Check each project's details.

Each project's future will be judged by team responsiveness, prompt 
release availability, product reliability and eventually user adoption.

All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement and 
project management & financing.

Cheers,
Nick

On 28/4/2021 10:35 ?.?., Nikolaos Milas wrote:
> All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement 
> and project management & financing.
By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat, 
could/might have addressed the community for fund raising, rather than 
abandoning the project to RH, which, as others have mentioned, was an 
unmistakable sign of upcoming CentOS EOL as we had come to know it.

If the financing need was communicated correctly, I am very confident 
that financing would have been secured, e.g. by using a public fund 
raising platform, due to CentOS huge install base and community.

Any of those current (or future) projects that might prove successful 
enough to become CentOS successor (as a RHEL binary twin, and not as 
Stream), should use the community financing model, in order to avoid 
CentOS fate.

My 0.01$ :)

Nick