SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Is it supposed to reassure me or somethin’?
It has to do with companies that are publicly traded, at least in the US. You need to be careful about statements about the future that could impact the stock price.
The idea is that you must tell people that you can’t guarantee the results.