Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Casey Dahlin]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> are not worth paying support for.  I suggested to RedHat that they
> provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case: it's possible
> manually anyway, so it would be a nice gesture to do it
> automatically for customers who let the support expire. As is in our
> case, this doesn't even decrease the amount of support we
> purchase---it just gives us the flexibility to deploy new systems
> all the time.

If CentOS were to take up that effort themselves (largely feasible for them to
do technically) I'm sure Red Hat sales would wink in that direction in cases
when they felt it was in the interest of Red Hat. Enough of that winking and
eventually engineers at Red Hat's end would probably have an incentive to keep
it working.

--CJD