The CentOS project is apparently going through a financial crisis. Things don't look good right now. Here's lead dev's take on the issue:
http://planet.centos.org/
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The CentOS project is apparently going through a financial crisis. Things don't look good right now. Here's lead dev's take on the issue:
http://planet.centos.org/
Obviously the guy holding the reins has been pocketing the $$$ to fund his champagne lifestyle. Why else would he not be disclosing the promised information.?
Now he's crawled into a hole.
owm
I don't read the articles that way at all. It explicitly states the project doesn't really need money as servers, bandwidth, and all the developer work are donated. It explicitly states the project is not dead.
The real crisis, if you want to call it that, is lack of communication from the project's lead founder who has not been forthcoming about where the donation and advertising money from the CentOS web site - which is apparently quite sizable on a monthly basis - goes to.
If CentOS "goes away" (centos.org, etc.) because the project lead never responds and there is a name change, I suspect it will come out stronger for it. There should have probably been a shift of control to a non-profit foundation where the funds would go and could be audited properly. There is ostensibly zero oversight of the money now and there has been for some time, which is a bad thing.
CentOS has been hugely popular and could easily be "monetized" if the lead developers agreed it should be, whether it's for something as simple as web site ads and donations or larger scale like official commercial support and so on.