SUSE invests $10 million to fork RHEL
SUSE invests $10 million to fork RHEL
SUSE invests $10 million to fork RHEL.
On July 11, SUSE announced that it will fork the publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution for everyone to use without restriction.
SUSE plans to invest more than $10 million in the project over the next few years.
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said: “Collaboration and shared success have been the cornerstones of our open source community for decades.
We have a responsibility to uphold these values. This investment will keep innovation flowing for years to come and ensure that Customers and communities alike are not locked into a vendor and have real choice tomorrow as well as today.”
SUSE plans to contribute the project to the Open Source Foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
SUSE remains fully committed to investing in its well-regarded Linux solutions, such as SLE and openSUSE, on which countless satisfied enterprise customers and communities rely.
At the same time, it acknowledges that enterprises and the open source community should have options and escape vendor lock-in.
SUSE has a long history of licensing and supporting users in mixed Linux environments.
Reference:
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux
