WHat was communicated at the time was that EQT was going to be "hands off", and allow the current management to continue operating SUSE as is. Even under Micro

WHat was communicated at the time was that EQT was going to be "hands off", and allow the current management to continue operating SUSE as is. Even under Microfocus they enjoyed a level of freedom usually associated with independent companies. If the board was left as is, and EQT is just a shareholder, that could be considered independent - more so than RH + IBM where there was some integration, and RH was becoming a wing of IBM. But this is all speculation on my part, so YMMV