Not 100% sure on that last comment as most of the people running the
infrastructure/Build systems are Redhat Employees.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI CentOS does not need the blessing of IBM any more than it already needs
> the blessing of Red Hat. Here's some reading material you might find
> interesting.
> https://www.centos.org/about/
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/
>
> Change of management at Red Hat will likely have no serious impact on the
> development of Fedora and CentOS.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:32 AM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:49:48 -0700
> > Richard England <rlengl...@frontier.com> dijo:
> >
> > >IBM will probably continue their Linux efforts. The better question is
> > >what will they do with Fedora and the desktop. IBM may have little
> > >interest in the desktop and their interest in non-revenue initiatives
> > >like Fedora and CentOS are questionable, as well.
> >
> > My take is that Redhat started Fedora as a test bed. I used it for a
> > couple of years before giving up on it. Yes, it's free, and in some ways
> > a competitor to the bigger desktop providers like Mint and Ubuntu, but
> > I couldn't put up with the constant, almost mandatory updates.
> > Nevertheless,  while I bitched about having to update, I had to
> > recognize that I knew the purpose of Fedora before I started using it -
> > I got a free desktop in exchange for being Redhat's guinea pig. So, as
> > long as Redhat needs a place to test new ideas, Fedora will probably
> > continue.
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