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

This is going to be interesting.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The beauty of GPL. ;)

    IBM/Red Hat cannot legally jail it. The GPL license was specifically designed to prevent that, and it has been proven in several countries that it holds up legally. This was such great foresight by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen.

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Discussions like this always make me happy to go back to look at the Linux Distro Family Tree

    opensuse is one of the roots / oldest distros, along side debian, redhat and fedora.

    Still surprised suse as a distro is around given the huge numbers of popular forks of debian and redhat.

    • raspberry_confetti@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes. And this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction from them. They’ve been working on a CentOS clone ever since Red Hat decided to make it more unstable and cutting edge. So it’s quite natural for them to step in and do this.

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    So what will SUSE’s plan be for the SUSE fork to maintain compatibility going forward - won’t they have the same problems accessing RHEL source code as Rocky and Alma to maintain compatibility?