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CentOS dumping tells us Red Hat has only dollar signs in its sights

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Sam Varghese
Dec 9, 2020

Open source company Red Hat’s decision to gut its CentOS distribution should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the company for some years and seen how it has gone from having some ethics and principles to just another American software firm: one that places the profit motive above everything.

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Sam Varghese

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