Oracle, Suse And Others Caught Up In Rhel Drama Hit Back With OpenELA
The Register, Monday, August 14,2023
A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS rebuilds.
The OpenELA homepage opens with some strong, even confrontational words: "No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome." That's a reference to the drama around RHEL and the recently erected paywall around its source code.
The non-profit's primary backers naturally all issued statements: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ.
CIQ is the smallest of the trio, though it is the corporate sponsor of Rocky Linux. It's worth noting CIQ does not directly run the Rocky Linux project: that is done by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.