To be sure the dissolution of CentOS Linux indicates - at a minimum - major damage to Red Hats' positioning as a paragon of open source. It might even signal the end. It's a pretty clear sign that Red Hat is under new management.
Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its en.
German open source vendor SUSE has said it will invest more than US$10 million (A$14.97 million) to fork the publicly available source code for Red Ha.
The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux dist.