It is announced last year [1] called SUSE Liberty Linux . I think priciple converting current RHEL/CentOS repository to own inhouse repository like Oracle did [2] or MS did [3], and get the money from providing subscription for support and security.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30006699 2: https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/migrate-centos-ora-linu... 3. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner