Where are we going? (Not a rant)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 12/10/2012 09:40 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> 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.

Which is why I think it would be in every ones best interest if all the 
RHEL clones ( even oracle ) would unite join our community maintain and 
support Fedora LTS release instead risk being bitten by any business 
decision Red Hat either willingly or be forced to make.

JBG