CentOS has officially made the statement that they will be changing direction and be basing their project on RHEL's unstable branch for the foreseeable future and will ditch any "lifelong" support as previously "promised".

This is all literally a business move on the folks who own Red Hat now—who also own CentOS.

All I can say is GOOOODD LUCCCCKKKK.

While I don't use CentOS anymore, while I was still using it, I liked it's stability - it was a solid system. Glad I wasn't running any servers running CentOS though, let alone a datacenter, given what's happened.

But, I can't say I'm surprised. It's a sad day indeed.

That's precisely the Ubuntu model. It seems to do okay.

I wonder why Linux users are narrowly tied to their multi-million companies (e.g. Red Hat) so much that they hope that they’ll keep promoting their enterprise packages.

I don't know, maybe because without Red Hat Linux itself would have seen completely different (and most probably worse) than it is today, for instance? What the hell is wrong with a multi-million company (by the way, Red Hat exceed 1 billion a long time ago)?! If anything, they should be praised because they were able to make good profit while remaining fundamentally open source and contributing to open source - so consequently encouraging also other companies to follow suit.

That is not to say that I agree with that they're doing now (especially cutting the EOL like that, which I find repugnant), but blaming users retrospectively like that is simply short-sighted and simply dumb, to be honest. So please spare me of the your poor judgements, ffs...