Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-07-04 03:39:
My take:
2. IBM doesn't really give a damn about Alma and Rocky, they're just incidental casualties. The #1 and maybe only target of the subscription-wall action is IBM's longtime arch-enemy Oracle, which may now be forced to actually maintain its own distro
This was one of my first thoughts too - Oracle will no longer be able to "leech" off of RedHat, which is rather delicious considering Oracle's reputation.
4. I see an opportunity for SUSE which maintains both an enterprise-Linux focus and good community relations. Are they up to it? As a longshot maybe even Oracle could try to seize the moment and try a charm offensive to attract a community... but that's unlikely considered its many burned bridges (Solaris, OpenOffice, Java)
That's an interesting idea - the rise of SUSE / OpenSuse. I kinda like the idea - I don't have personal experience with it, but it seems well-regarded. Seems the whole English speaking world (of podcasters and YouTubers) has a bit of a blind spot to SUSE and they probably deserve more attention. Good call, hope it pans out. As for Oracle, they have free / cheap cloud hosting for tiny instances, so maybe they'll try a charm offensive, however even with a free tiny-VPS, they don't seem to have much mind share. I can't really see this. Charm & Oracle don't belong in the same sentence. rb