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In response to the withdrawal of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from open source, SUSE is developing a hard fork the distribution to continue to offer them without restrictions.
In response to the withdrawal of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from open source, SUSE is developing a hard fork the distribution to continue to offer them without restrictions.
SUSE announces an investment of more than 10 million US dollars. This money will be used by the well-known European open source platform to create one hard fork for development from the Red Hat Linux distribution. This term means that developers copy publicly available code from a software package and develop it independently.
With this action, SUSE wants to ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains available to everyone without restrictions. CEO Dirk-Peter Van Leeuwen clarifies: “This investment will keep the innovation flow going for years to come and ensure that both customers and the community are not subject to vendor lock-in and have real choice both tomorrow and today.”
This statement can be seen as a mockery of Red Hat. The bombshell blew up two weeks ago when Red Hat decided to offer Enterprise Linux source code exclusively through CentOS Stream, thus no longer making it open source. This decision drew a lot of criticism, as Red Hat allegedly betrayed its own principles with this decision. Oracle, among others, has already sharply attacked Red Hat, somewhat ironically.
The boomerang now appears to be headed for Red Hat’s face. Several smaller players like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux have already developed copies. With SUSE, a very influential opponent is added. Rocky Linux also joins the SUSE project.
Red Hat itself can still put everything into perspective. “Each fork of Enterprise Linux is proof that we follow the spirit of open source and keep the source code freely available to anyone who wants it,” the company told TechCrunch. A prime example of how you can turn negative publicity into a positive story.
Source: IT Daily
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