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OpenELA - Community Repository for Enterprise Linux Sources (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ericjmorey@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers.

There are many Linux Distributions that are perfectly suitable for enterprise use cases and environments. For the purpose of this charter and project, OpenELA recognizes “Enterprise Linux” (EL) as 1:1 and bug-for-bug source code compatibility which today is aligned to RHEL and CentOS.

OpenELA's mission is to provide a secure, transparent, and reliable Enterprise Linux source that is globally available to all as a buildable base.

OpenELA is a collaboration created and upheld by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.

Read the recent article on the formation of OpenELA by Richard Speed at The Register

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

RHEL has already agreed to giving the source code to anyone they distribute their software to. It doesn't matter if they no longer like that agreement. They are bound by it because they willingly entered into it. RHEL doesn't make money by selling their software. They make money by consulting to companies that want to use the software and augment that software for their needs.