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has determined that they see no value in a downstream rebuilder of redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-co

Given that, as the team @warthog9 and I have concerns in supporting RHEL's upstream development branch in a community manner. We have removed Centos-stream from the eight Micro Mirror nodes as well as our main mirror.fcix.net mirror which were hosting that project, explicitly over these concerns.

The MicroMirror project is run, literally, as a hobby and a public benefit. No one on the team is paid for this effort, and in fact costs us money (though we actively appreciate and love the support we get, we still throw our own skin into this game too!). It's hard to be a part of Redhat's community when they seemingly take umbrage with our support, so from our perspective Redhat needs to either embrace the community as we have always wanted and expected from them, or until such time as they do they should consider getting into the Linux mirror business for their development branch of RHEL.

www.redhat.comRed Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changesMore about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.
Andy Jones
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@jbowen @kwf @warthog9 Well, they *are* working hard. But their work goes into making money (and arguably no longer to the benefit of anyone else). So from *our* point of view that doesn't count; from theirs, we *are* freeloaders.

This is why, while it's technically fine to make money from FOSS, I always look at that sort of thing sideways.

Felix Lechner
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@kwf @warthog9 Hi, rarely before could free software aficionados make a difference by taking a stand. Congratulations on your marvelous success with those Micro Mirrors!

Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
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@kwf OpenSUSE Leap is looking rather enticing at this point.
theothertom
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@kwf @warthog9 Feels notable that the blog post calls out several other distros, but doesn’t mention Debian. I guess it’s an inconvenient example of a sustainable distro with lots of downstream freeloaders…

Dan Oachs
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@kwf @warthog9 I can just imagine someone at IBM seeing a sudden influx of traffic and thinking their strategy is working. Just look at how many more people are now downloading CentOS Stream! They must have switched away from Rocky/Alma/etc.