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Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Mustafaalbazy@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is equivalent to going nuclear. But there’s a reason SUSE is doing this now, and that it will likely be championed by many in the open source community. It’s a complicated story.

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Because they’re chads