Contrary to the many sensationalized headlines, CentOS is NOT in trouble. What is happening is that some internal issues came to a head and the only way to force the issue is to make it public.
The person in question has not been an active member of CentOS for a LONG time (a few years), and during that time the others who are involved in the project have been going forward with business as usual. The only reason this is an issue is because of the domain ownership and paypal account The point of this letter is to get his attention and force him to do the right thing by turning over the keys to those things, since he has no active involvement anyway. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey<[email protected]> wrote: > Ooooooo… > > Have a look at http://www.centos.org > > It seems centos is in trouble. One of their founders may be pulling an > Enron. Or more accurately, a SunRocket. (The CEO of SunRocket one day sold > all the equipment, emptied the bank account, and disappeared to some > Caribbean island. The employees learned they were fired when the support > lines stopped ringing, so one of them called the support line from his cell > phone to see what was going on, and got the recording “sunrocket has > terminated all functions. Goodbye.”) > > Apparently one guy has always had a stranglehold on centos, hasn’t been > willing or able to grant additional control to other delegates, and has > disappeared from the face of the earth. (over a year ago). > > I sincerely doubt centos could truly die. If they have to, they’ll take a > severe setback, get a new domain, rebuild everything from scratch, and get > back into operation. But that would in fact be a severe setback. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
