OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.
There are many Linux Distributions that are perfectly suitable for enterprise use cases and environments. For the purpose of this charter and project, OpenELA recognizes “Enterprise Linux” (EL) as 1:1 and bug-for-bug source code compatibility which today is aligned to RHEL and CentOS.
OpenELA’s mission is to provide a secure, transparent, and reliable Enterprise Linux source that is globally available to all as a buildable base.
OpenELA is a collaboration created and upheld by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.
Read the recent article on the formation of OpenELA by Richard Speed at The Register
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If RH survives because of the support, why would they care about this? Only reason it’s a thing is because of their idea of restricting the rhel code. Restricted enterprise Linux is worse than no enterprise Linux.
I’m just guessing but I think rhel made money off their support already, but someone in management figured “we’re giving this away for free!”
they didn’t want other companies (oracle, or rocky linux etc) using their code and lucrating on top of it, without helping in nothing, rhel that pay the devs, that fixes linux, improve mesa, that work on features, i agree that they restricting it isn’t in the opensource spirit, but they aren’t breaking the gpl, and i would be a hypocrital in don’t wanting rhel to keep making money, pipewire is a dream, dbus fixes tons of issues with other implementations, xorg and wayland(they are mainteiners of both) flatpak, mesa drivers, systemd is good, that why everyone is using it, etc i like that tech, that what make linux desktop being that good today, and i use it, and it is privacy friendly and open-source, that’s enough for me(if they close-source it, i would switch)
Without gpl source there would be no RHEL. If they want closed source there’s other kernels with userlands under proprietary licences or bsd-like, yet they went for the GPL one. To lucrate (?) on top of it.
How many do you reckon would be using systemd if it was closed source? What about Wayland? I’m thinking mostly just you and their fanclub