Does this mean that CentOS 8 is EOL come 2021? Weren't maintenance updates meant to go to 2029? What about everybody who built their product on the assumption that there would be a stable CentOS until then?
It used to be this. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131417/https://wiki.cent...
That page is a Wiki and here is the diff between the current version and the previous: https://wiki.centos.org/action/info/About/Product?action=dif...
They've just eradicated almost all mentions of CentOS 8 from their main website. So: yes.
> What about everybody who built their product on the assumption that there would be a stable CentOS until then?
They just got what they paid for?
Haha, fair. To be honest, I'm surprised it took this long for it to happen after CentOS joined Red Hat. I wonder if the IBM acquisition had any influence on this.
Funny, but isn't this totally reasonable grounds for an adverse possession claim against RHEL?
If a business claims they're going to keep doing something, and you build your business on that claim, and then they change their mind, you can have grounds to sue. Or, at least, that's what I vaguely remember from reading about AP law.
Not really. If you depend on CentOS it is reasonable you would contribute to it. There has to be a nonzero number of CentOS users that contributed to the project ("paid") that are now left holding the bag.
Not really.
Just TRY to "contribute" to CentOS. You can't.
CentOS hasn't been a "community" enterprise operating system for years.