On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:32:37 +0000
Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
Fedora is the "bleeding edge" development arm of RHEL.
Eventually,
once enough changes have been made and stabilized in Fedora, it
becomes the next release of RHEL. We Fedora users are just the lab
rats and a giant, very vocal and fairly sophisticated bunch of beta
testers. CentOS is built off the RHEL source tree. It's rebranded,
but it is essentially RHEL (but free and without direct RedHat
support to users).
And this is the reason I think Fedora will continue relatively
unscathed. Replacing the services that the users of Fedora provide to
Red Hat's product with paid employees would be more costly than the
support Red Hat gives Fedora, and less effective in finding issues.