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

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

Investment reinforces SUSE’s commitment to innovate and support SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions and related open source projects SUSE plans to contribute its code to an open source foundation

SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.

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It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

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- This is just standard boilerplate language, and whether a particular product or company includes it or not is entirely a function of that company's legal department and has no bearing at all on the future behavior of the company.
  That is to say, everything in here is true of everything, whether they tell you that or not, and literally zero information is gained from seeing it explicitly stated. If they'd completely left it out, it would still be true.
  
  Is it supposed to reassure me or somethin'?
- Is this the first time you're reading something like this?
  
  So clearly on the same page? Yes.

I'm really not sure what problem this is supposed to solve. Anyone can fork the current source. People don't care about forks, they want RHEL.

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