• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    This isnt good for Redhat. Its a hard fork that will be compatible with rhel, basically a new Centos, with SUSE marketing and branding all over it. Even the announcement mentions 5 other SUSE products for the enterprise while offering an alternative to rhel. This is a sales funnel away from Redhat enterprise products to SUSE enterprise products.

    This is good for linux, not for Redhat.

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      You are missing the point. More contributions to Linux helps RHEL more than copy-cat re-builds that contribute nothing.

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        More contributions to Linux from parties other than RHEL don’t help RHEL. That’s literally the view they have taken since their announcement.

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          That is not what they said at all. They said pure bug-for-bug compatible rebuilds don’t help RHEL. Which is undeniably true.

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            Just because they said that they don’t think RHEL clones contribute to the RHEL ecosystem doesn’t mean that it is entirely true. Are you new to PR speak?

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              Yet they consistently say that other contributions to Linux are very welcome and help RHEL, CentOS stream and everyone else. I think you have a strong case of selective memory and reading comprehension that only sees what fits into your pre-determined world-view 😜

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                Yes. What they say and their actions are entirely contradictory in my own warped view.

                But good thing am not the only one who seems to think so 🤪 as clearly Oracle and SUSE agree with this view.

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                  If one thing has always been true, it is that Oracle will always chose the wrong side of history no matter what.

                  Be careful who your allies are 😬

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                    I don’t really care that much for Oracle’s role in Linux but IBM’s Red Hat is clearly the drunk guy here.

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            I think maybe to point out that SUSE is already the second largest enterprise Linux provider in the market. They already studied RHEL code, this would have been a gentleman’s agreement broken not to outright copy each other. RHEL will easily copy SLES improvements and incorporate it into their own code, but SUSE will gain marketshare.