@buyeuropean @go_european @ueeu
Please stop recommending @opensuse for EU citizen they ARE NOT european but are owned by Novell an AMERICAN company
Also their licenses stipulate :
You acknowledge that openSUSE Leap 15.6 is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (the “EAR”) and you agree to comply with the EAR. You will not export or re-export openSUSE Leap 15.6 directly or indirectly, to: (1) any countries that are subject to US export restrictions
According to Wikipedia, as of 2018/19, SUSE is owned by the Swedish inverstment company EQT AB and, as I understand, since 2010/11, when Novell was bought by Attachmate group, no longer part of Novell.
@Successful_Try543 https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:License
go see youself the license, it’s remain under US control, So this is not for buy EU
That was not my point.
Edit: EAR is preemptively put into the licences of companies doing business in the US, although unrestrictedly publicly available FOSS isn’t “published” in the legal sense and thus isn’t subjected to EAR.
openSUSE is dependent on SUSE, which is part of the Linux Foundation, an entity under U.S. jurisdiction. openSUSE also uses systemd, developed by Red Hat, which is owned by IBM and has ties to Microsoft. The original poster is absolutely right: openSUSE cannot be fully trusted due to SUSE’s significant connections to U.S. corporations.
Quite a few distros use systemd.
Of course, but this has the potential to be a problem, as it’s corporate-driven. Certainly, enterprises have the right to create their own distributions and even sell them, but I see Linux distributions as fundamentally community-driven projects. Corporate influence - whether through crucial software or participation in committees - risks shifting the balance away from community values, which is why I am against any corporate influence.
@Successful_Try543 that simply show that the potential aquisition is not done and it’s remain US based
The acquisition was completed in 2019 and currently SUSE S.A. (Société Anonyme) has is corporate headquarters in Luxemburg.
@chrib yeah sure and the licensing than push it under US law is for a joke …
Just use a search engine and search for „suse eqt“.