At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?
The head of the CentOS GNU/Linux project has gone missing and other contributors to the project are sufficiently concerned to post an open letter to him on the project's website.
CentOS (the Community Enterprise Operating System) is basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux without the trademarks; hence it is binary-compatible with RHEL.
The eight contributors published their open letter to Lance Davis yesterday. Apparently, he has been away since sometime in 2008 but, as one contributor, Ralph Angenendt, put it , "Everybody needs time off from projects from time to time, so there was no real need to worry about that."
One thing that does concern the eight is the fact that only Davis, who has not been active in the project for a while, has access to the centos.org domain.
Wrote Angenendt: "Lance is the only one, who can make active changes to the centos.org domain, as he “owns it”. Nobody else in the team is able to add nameservers, for instance. Recently he put an anonymizing service on the domain, so that nobody from the outside can see who that domain belongs to. "
The contributors are also concerned that all donations to the project have been in Davis's keeping and nobody else knows the extent of funding received or how it was used.
"...Lance is the one who has access to the Google AdSense and the Paypal accounts, again without a backup. We have asked for overviews of the accounts several times now and haven’t gotten back any answers," Angenendt wrote.
"This money was donated towards the project and could have been used for professionally made media for fairs and conventions, professionally made advertisement material for the same, hardware, community support (give out media to people who want to show off CentOS) and so on. To make it clear: Nobody in the CentOS team wants to make money off the project, we all have jobs and do CentOS in our free time."
The eight have assured users of CentOS that the distribution will not be orphaned. However, it may be unable to continue at the same domain.
Michelle Thomas
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