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IBM/Red Hat have just handed Rocky Linux the possibility of becoming the de facto enterprise Linux.

The Rocky Linux team have already been selling support, but previously they could only hope to be an alternative to Red Hat.

With IBM/Red Hat effectively abandoning Open Source, Rocky Linux can step in and position themselves to fill that gap.

This will go down as yet another huge strategic blunder by IBM.

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Very unlikely that Rocky will become defacto.

Companies I trust before Rocky:

- Oracle

- SuSE

- Canonical

Distros I know will survive pretty much no matter what:

- Debian

Now... What am I going to bet on if I'm a company who just got cut-off by Red Hat, and I really have little loyality to Red Hat.

If I like RPM: SuSE. I'm sure there's a way to work out terms that are win/win.

If I want to just have my own distro: Base off Debian. It has worked for Canonical for years now.

Not personally a consumer of RHEL or other binary-compatible distros, so I'm probably out of the loop, but the phrasing of this comes across like Rocky may be less honest than the other companies you have listed. Is this the way it is meant (i.e. have they exhibited dishonest behavior)?

The Rocky Linux team does _NOT_ sell support.

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