The CentOS project responded to the Red Hat open source incident, claiming that its Linux community was "always open to everyone"

CTOnews.com, July 17, after the Red Hat RHEL open source incident, many RHEL-compatible distributions have recently made statements, and the CentOS project has announced that its community is "always open to everyone."

It is reported that the board of directors of the CentOS project recently issued an announcement on the official blog, which mainly related to "the CentOS project is inseparable from the community" and said they were "open to everyone".

The CTOnews.com translation statement is as follows:

Opening up the community, developing the community and making it easier for people to contribute to the project are the key elements of success. We are excited about our interest in working with the CentOS project.

Since the spring of 2023, CentOS's board and community members have been developing a set of guidelines to help define success and provide more deliverable content for CentOS. From day one, building and contributing to the community has been part of the guidelines.

We are excited that new contributors have shown a lot of interest in us and look forward to working with them to improve the CentOS project, the SIG community, and the entire Linux ecosystem.

After the Red Hat RHEL open source incident, people from all walks of life responded to this. For example, Oracle previously said that Red Hat "betrayed open source" and welcomed any distribution derived from Oracle Linux, while SUSE announced that it would spend more than $10 million to develop a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. It can be said that Red Hat caused "public anger".