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[–] art@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of those situations where the solution is so obvious I kind of hate that I didn't get it beforehand. We have open standards for everything so it makes sense to build an open standard for "Linux in Business".

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are not creating an “open standard” because the standard is “RHEL compatible”. Do you consider RHEL an open standard?

If they were making an open standard, this would be great. That is not what they are doing. What they are doing is collaborating on the task of exactly duplicating whatever RHEL is doing.