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This is just a weak PR statement. Alma and Rocky already revealed that these things are not trivial to maintain and I fail to see beyond pure fork how on earth would SUSE maintain RHEL compatibility and avoid litigation from IBM at the same time.

And then SUSE might be sold off again to some predatory company similar to IBM. What's even the point then of not using pure community distros like Debian?

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Red Hatter here, but just my personal opinion. I don't think there would be any litigation. We can terminate accounts for people downloading SRPM's to redistribute them but we can't stop the redistribution itself. There is nothing illegal about making a RHEL clone minus our trademarks.

Correction, you're legal team thinks you can terminate accounts that choose to exercise their rights. That theory has yet to be put to an actual legal challenge. Will be interesting to see the ultimate outcome.

Support and long term stability. You can hire a sysadmin to do everything manually, but it is worth the money to a lot of big businesses to have somewhere to call when things get screwey. Also having a server that doesn't need to be turned off for ~10 years is a huge W for businesses as well.

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