CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

The headline on the Red Hat Release:

Red Hat and the CentOS Project Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation

...scares me a bit. Are they going to change CentOS into an innovation platform? That might make it just as unsuitable for webhosting (because of rapid changes) as Fedora is now.

Jeff
 
I share the same concern, however I hope CentOS "core" will not be affected much, but still be a stable RedHat clone, my hope for this is based on this from the CentOS-announce:

...The Board also aims to put
together a plan to allow groups to come together within the CentOS
ecosystem as a Special Interest Group (SIG) and build CentOS Variants
on our resources, as officially endorsed. You can read about the
proposal at http://www.centos.org/variants/
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When I read more at http://www.centos.org/variants/ I get the hope that maybe CentOS "core" will stay mostly as before, and that these new "variants" will he the ones to have the most impact. At least I hope so.
 
I hope so. However it will bear watching. Frankly the whole thing doesn't pass the smell test for me. Why would Red Hat do this if not to have some control over what CentOS does? And what's the advantage to Red Hat to have an exact clone available at no cost?

Is Scientific Linux still a viable alternative? The last version release was 6.4 on 28 March 2013.

Jeff
 
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