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bubblethink on Oct 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM acquires Red Hat

OpenSolaris came after regular Solaris. It was a retroactive opening of code, and wasn't as essential to regular Solaris. In contrast, Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence. CentOS is not that instrumental, but it's not a major cost sink either. It used to be community driven earlier and can become so again. i.e., Unless they go out of their way to do something malicious, which would have little payoff anyway.

dexterous on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

> Fedora is quite instrumental to RHEL's existence

Could you expand on that? I'm curious.

bubblethink on Oct 30, 2018 | [–]

Fedora is upstream for RHEL. RHEL is made up of several Fedora releases. Fedora is also the testing ground for RHEL.

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