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.
RedHat originally had one distribution called “RedHat Linux”, not to be confused with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
RedHat Linux was free, you can buy support if you want, and there was also RedHat Advanced Server, which was a paid subscription.
In 2002, the company rebranded Advanced Sever to RHEL and discontinued RedHat Linux, pissing off a lot of people off.
This started people working on multiple binary compatible distributions, the one that dominated the market was CentOS.
20 years later, the cycle is repeating.
