Yes, we are considering OpenELA for many reasons. It's backed by big companies with a common goal, so it's probably less risky than other choices (but Alma is also an interesting choice anyway).

As usual, it will be loosely based too: it's relatively impossible to "transform" a regular distro to XCP-ng, but it is very helpful to re-use many packages as possible for reducing the burden of maintaining them all 🙂

We are very well aware about all of this. But we are not a distro entirely based on RHEL at all (again, all the network, kernel, storage and compute plus many other things are NOT coming from RHEL).

On a personal point of view, I'm a strong proponent of Copyleft licenses and the greater good, in the original spirit of free software. To me, there's a real moral contract between the software editors and the users. You can read my detailed opinion in this blog post: https://virtualize.sh/blog/the-moral-contract/

Due to those personal opinions, I'm really unhappy with RedHat move (and behind Alma and Rocky), but this is NOT clashing with our position for the next major release. So no, we won't be directly disrupted by this move.