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		CivBase on Dec 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS fo... I don't think CentOS ever intended to be IBM either.

flatline on Dec 16, 2020 [–]

I always thought it was more than a little incestuous for RH to acquire and maintain the RH clone, but it did fill a niche.

rnd0 on Dec 17, 2020 | [–]

Centos was broke. Otherwise it's doubtful that they would have sold to Redhat.

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