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I'm kinda surprised SUSE is going in on this. They kind of do their own thing, so making RHEL-compatible packages seems a little odd. But whatever, as long as openSUSE doesn't turn into Fedora, I'm happy.
A little over a week ago, SUSE also announced they would be releasing their own binary compatible RHEL clone with $10 million of backing. So it looks like they were planning to take advantage of this uproar from the beginning.
Interesting. It looks like SUSE also started an internal project some 3 years ago, so they may be quite far along in the process as well.