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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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That post is misleading. Novell cooperated with Microsoft, and actually made money from the deal not the other way around. That no longer matters anyway since the SUSE company is no longer connected to Novell. Novell was bought out by Attachmate who then merged with Micro Focus. Micro Focus sold SUSE to EQT who made SUSE it's own company. So while the Novell deal was bad for open source it no longer has any bearing on opensuse.
So OpenSUSE was bought and then it was bought and then it was bought and then it was bought and then it was bought and who knows who will buy it tomorrow.
I'm sorry I took long to reply, but you are still wrong. Whether or not the Suse company gets bought or sold has no bearing on opensuse since that is an independant entity. No patent encumbered software ships with opensuse. You would have to use third party repositories just like Debian to install them.