Sounds like 1 step forward and 5 steps backward. BSD is lacking much and has little that isn't in the Linux kernel.
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean-Victor Côté" <jean-v.c...@sympatico.ca> > To: "Scientific Linux Users List" <scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:06:02 PM > Subject: RE: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious > Debian is moving to the BSD kernel. > How does Scientific BSD sound to you? > Jean-Victor Côté, M.Sc.(Sciences économiques), (CPA, CMA), Post MBA > J'ai aussi passé d'autres examens, dont les examens CFA. > J'ai un profil Viadeo sommaire: > http://www.viadeo.com/fr/profile/jean-victor.cote > I also have a LinkedIn profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2367003&trk=tab_pro > > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:45:01 -0800 > > Subject: RedHat CentOS acquisition: stating the obvious > > From: lopre...@gmail.com > > To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov > > > > RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making > > money. Every action by any company -- literally every single > > action, > > ever -- is motivated by that goal. > > > > The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this > > move is going to make them money? > > > > Those were statements of fact. What follows is merely my opinion. > > > > Right now, anybody can easily get for free the same thing Red Hat > > sells, and their #1 competitor is taking their products, augmenting > > them, and reselling them. If you think Red Hat perceives this as > > being > > in their financial interest, I think you are out of your mind. > > > > SRPMs will go away and be replaced by an ever-moving git tree. Red > > Hat > > will make it as hard as legally possible to rebuild their > > commercial > > releases. The primary target of this move is Oracle, but Scientific > > Linux will be collateral damage. > > > > I consider all of this pretty obvious, but perhaps I am wrong. I > > hope I am. > > > > - Pat