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Is this just a ploy to get RHEL licensing $$$ while another project emerges to provide what CentOS used to? The whole point of CentOS was to be a carbon copy of RHEL. Then RedHat bought them and now this...

If you successfully fill that void, maybe you too can be acquired by IBM/RH in a few years as they repeat the cycle.

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> while another project emerges to provide what CentOS used to?

This is an opportunity. Imagine Amazon stepping in and funding the CentOS replacement. They'd capture a huge chunk of the SME market within two years.

Amazon already has its own distribution in the form of Amazon Linux, a derivative of RHEL. Seems like a short walk to provide an unsupported, Amazon branded, bare metal RHEL-based distribution that also happens to align its users with AWS. The really smart thing would be to start there but then fork slowly and eventually diverge from RHEL in fundamental ways.

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