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FOSS Week In Review: ‘Maddog’ on Red Hat, Cooking With Mint, Linux’s Big Mac Attack & more…

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FOSS Force; By Christine Hall
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It seems to me that when Red Hat took control of CentOS back in the day, gave CentOS devs space in its offices to work, and actually helped CentOS’s devs make clones of RHEL that would then be freely distributed to anyone who wanted to run RHEL without having to purchase a support subscription — that sent a message to enterprise users (and it was the enterprise that mainly used CentOS when it was a downstream clone of RHEL) that Red Hat was fine with folks using their technology as CentOS, that Red Hat essentially thought there was plenty enough to go around for everybody.

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