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Comment by gvb

Money.

RHEL requires expensive licenses. CentOS was RHEL without the RedHat branding and without the expensive licensing.

By design, there was a nearly complete overlap between RHEL and CentOS. By "repurposing" CentOS into a "rolling release", RedHat (IBM) has broken the overlap so CentOS (free licensing) no longer competes directly against RHEL (expensive licensing).

parent gvb 5 years ago

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