None, right now. But the way these community projects usually get killed is through the lack of resources, be it computing power, storage, volunteer time, etc. A company comes in and provides those resources -- for some sort of consideration, and over time, it takes over, because they have the resources the project needs.
That's what happened to CentOS, and it will likely happen to Rocky Linux, too. Not immediately, of course, but over time. It may get 5 or 10 years, before being subsumed -- and perhaps the next company will also be bought out by IBM and merged into Red Hat. If you want the project to keep going, your best bet is to contribute on an ongoing basis, either with money or your time. Packages need to be maintained (usually by scripting the replacement of Red Hat trademarks with community terms), and packages need to be rebuilt using computing resources. Commit some community effort into keeping it going, and you'll in turn ensure that the community project won't need outside resources by a business which might eventually take over. Money is also needed to pay for things like bandwidth, storage, and potentially dedicated machine(s) for the project. On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:24 AM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:43 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And, of course, I can’t help but wonder if it will it eventually get >> “CentOS’d(ead)” by IBM as well. > > > What influence does IBM have over Rocky Linux to kill it? All of the RHEL > code is GPL, Rocky (and Alma) will always have access to it. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC96vxbwd_TgNHctyuFfvTyTSBUcG0AL2Yem%3D5guZKtYxw%40mail.gmail.com. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcWb%3D%3DT%2BO27mQz_Mwq%2BNqshyeoQ7AS3obo2NC47Notyq5w%40mail.gmail.com.
