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That does sound pretty cool. Who owns Suse again? Do they have a social contract? How's their democratic decision making? Do they properly separate non-free so

• rbrownsuse 11y ago
  I wrote a rather long mailinglist post that should answer a lot of those questions.. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-02/msg00003.html https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-02/msg00003...
• rbrownsuse 11y ago
  and one question that doesn't get answered by that link - yes, we properly separate non-free software from our free packages
  • pre 11y ago
    "Who Owns It" seems to be a company owned by a company floated on the stock markets. But with excellent community input. That company is apparently actually making money selling at-least-mostly-free software, while supporting the properly-free openSuse. Is that about right? That's probably better than being Shuttleworth's toy. Looks easily enough forked if needed. I think I'd feel weird about going back to a OS supported by a for-profit rather than a charity, but that test suite does sound top. I may give it a go for a while at least, next time I have to reinstall. Cheers for making me pay some attention to it ;)
    • rbrownsuse 11y ago
      I'd say that's a fair assessment :) SUSE isn't your typical 'for-profit', and the nature of the relationship with openSUSE reflects that Thanks for the consideration