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SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE

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Well I didn’t have that on my bingo card.
Better SUSE than Oracle I guess so we will see how this works out. But in general it is good (and even in Red Hat's interest) if more people invest into the development of a stable enterprise Linux release instead of leaching off Red Hat's contributions.
- This isnt good for Redhat. Its a hard fork that will be compatible with rhel, basically a new Centos, with SUSE marketing and branding all over it. Even the announcement mentions 5 other SUSE products for the enterprise while offering an alternative to rhel. This is a sales funnel away from Redhat enterprise products to SUSE enterprise products.
  This is good for linux, not for Redhat.
  
  You are missing the point. More contributions to Linux helps RHEL more than copy-cat re-builds that contribute nothing.
Oh ho ho this is getting interesting. What a big fat L for RedHat. Choked CentOS and lost control of the community, cut off source access and spurred migration away from their platform. Now they not only have to contend with Oracle but SUSE too. I wonder if this will culminate in legal proceedings should RedHat try to further restrict source access.
I don't understand what the benefit for SUSE is of this? Wouldn't they want enterprise to use their own distros? Gaining cred from the FOSS/Linux community while undermining RHEL economically? Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question.
Will that be bug for bug compatible with RHEL ? I am still confused by this news

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