CentOS - Dec 2020 - CentOS 8 future

hi,

appears facebook is running centos stream and also helping developing 
centos. ? not sure if the following article has already been seen:
<https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux

On 12/12/2020 :43 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
> Am 12.12.20 um 04:11 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille:
>> "John R. Dennison" <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ? Yes, far be it from people to worry about putting food on their
>>> ? children's table during a pandemic.
>>
>> Oh, please. Nobody suggested this has anything to do with the
>> pandemic; nobody even mentioned the pandemic, except you.
>>
>
> While we are on pandemic, a complete different point here now.
> ( its already being said, but it occupies us still mentally )
>
> What about the small businesses that in this times suffer very much,
> being forced to pay licenses will kill them ... I have a client that 
> moved from IBMCloud/RedHat to AWS/CentOS to survive this times.
> (BTW: I suggest initially to use RHEL!) What do imagine who will be 
> killed when they receive the message that they should plan some 
> budgets for new licenses ...
>
> -- 
> Leon
>
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 23:55, edward via CentOS <centos at centos.org>
wrote:

appears facebook is running centos stream and also helping
developing
> centos.

 A small but important point of order on that statement, based on the
article you link;

"an operating system they derive from CentOS Stream. "

So Stream is the starting point which Facebook then does "facebook
things"
to and forms their own in-house distro. They're not running Stream.