Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything
> That’s the strategy. That’s the magic. You don’t need to go Open Core or any other permutation of kind-of, sort-of open source. You can open source everything and just ensure you have a rock-solid managed cloud service. This reliance on cloud is what’s driving MongoDB, Confluent, DataStax, Redis Labs, and others to great success. It can be your model, too.<p>It's not clear how this would work with a Linux distribution that has already been commoditized by the cloud vendors. Amazon Linux is a CentOS rebrand, and probably soon Amazon Linux will stand on its own feet similar to ElasticSearch, thanks to the Red Hat move