New trade association brings together open source Enterprise Linux community It will provide an open process to access source code that organizations can use to build distributions compatible with RHEL RENO, Nev., AUSTIN, Texas, and LUXEMBOURG—August 10, 2023—CIQ, Oracle and SUSE today announced their intent to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), a collaborative trade association to encourage the development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux (EL) source code.

CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle, and SUSE announce a new trade association dedicated to providing source code for building RHEL compatible distributions.

The formation of OpenELA arises from Red Hat’s recent changes to RHEL source code availability.

  • @xyguy
    14•11 months ago

    God I really hate to see Oracle involved. Everything they touch turns into an IP lawsuit.

    If they really loved open source so much they wouldn’t have close-sourced ZFS and OpenSolaris in 2010 after they were already open source.

    CIQ and Rocky are solid but remember just because Oracle is the enemy of the enemy doesn’t make them even close to a friend.