Like a pawnshop. And please, delete RedHat. Since today it’s IBM. And the new name of the software is IBMEL 1.0 “Ripoff Edition”.
I think you’re wrong. You already know what IBM does.
Squeeze money. From the top to the bottom. And when it’s drained completely, they squeeze twice more.
And i’d pay a beer or a single malt to you if any of the contribution not according to IBM goals will not be rejected without explanation. Cutting the rope to CentOS like IBM did is a way to throw away all the not paying customers (which brings also feedback on bugs) and increase revenues.
It’s not “wrong” par se, it’s not suiting the current situation.
The second beer or single malt if the stability or the “package tornado” won’t encrease by far from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream.
Which will become, in my so ignorant and cold fish believengs, the bug washing machine of IBM needs. A friendly “please dude go back in time and sort out the mess” suggestion straght from Armonk.
Ok, putting down most of the swords…
I don’t think that CentOS Stream will become whimsical like Gentoo or something even more bleeding edge, but the release quality certainly will decrease. Cutting CentOS 8 a lot of development won’t be needed anymore for backporting corrections, and i think also that CentOS 7 will receive only security fixes. Less work to do, hoping it will be translated into better quality of code. But CentOS x and Stream have quite different goals. And they’ll become clearer to the community only at the last year of CentOS 7. When the transition to IBMEL won’t be suggested, or nudged, but forcibly pushed; even more if the business plan for revenues won’t match the expectation of the new shareholder. Or emperor, as you wish.
The kindness to CentOS shown by RedHat was important to gain customers for services and subscriptions. But now, IBM wants more profits, so i think that as happened with Dyn and Oracle… after acquisition prices skyrocketed. And IMVHO, IBM wants to skyrocket the subscriptions.