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SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder (www.phoronix.com)

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Marcel LUX III SARL (Marcel) as the largest shareholder in SUSE is planning to take the company private and delist it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. SUSE will be merged with an unlisted Luxembourg entity. Marcel currently owns a 79% stake in SUSE.

SUSE.com press release

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canonical

Looking pretty good right now among the corporate distro makers. 🥲

Yeah, sure... https://lwn.net/Articles/937369/

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you consider this comparable to the harm IBM (RedHat) is causing?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do you consider this comparable to the harm IBM (RedHat) is causing?

Compared to all the shit Canonical is pulling since such a long time, what IBM/RH is doing is child's play:

Claiming copyright on all free software binaries in Ubuntu, even those from GPL'ed source code and telling Linux Mint they need to get a license from Canonical: https://blogs.kde.org/2014/02/14/no-licence-needed-kubuntu-derivative-distributions (later changed after pressure, now all Ubuntu binaries except the GPL'ed ones require a license from Canonical: https://www.fsf.org/news/canonical-updated-licensing-terms)
Canonical forcing out the Kubuntu maintainers for making aforementioned factually correct statements (this led to the creation of KDE Neon): https://www.pcworld.com/article/424171/kubuntus-founder-resigns-accuses-canonical-of-defrauding-donors-and-violating-copyright.html
CLA'ed software which allows Canonical exclusively to sell proprietary versions: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
Mir (CLA'ed)
Snap (CLA'ed)
"Ubuntu is not a democracy": http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/ubuntu-is-not-democratic.html
Buying votes on Debian CTTE to get Debian to adopt Upstart (CLA'ed) over systemd: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTQ5NzQ
Canonical closing doors on LXD: https://lwn.net/Articles/937369/
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[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

This is exactly why I have never touched Ubuntu and avoid anything to do with Canonical as much as possible.