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> I think we need a fully open source alternative to RHEL not bound to any company

I believe the problem is not that there wouldn’t be open source alternatives but that that’s not what enterprise wants. Enterprise wants a company behind the distribution.

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Of course, think about the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian. The idea is the upstream would be a fully open-source project that vendors build off of downstream. This way we can prevent vendors from subjugating a distribution like with Red Hat and CentOS and if a vendor pulls out of the market or goes out of business it doesn't take down the ecosystem with it.

But arguably, there's also a pretty large world that wants enterprise type of solutions (for some use cases) without being actual enterprises.

Or am I the only one?

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