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SUSE Said It Was Becoming Independent But Instead It Became Like an 'Asset' of SAP ('German Microsoft'), Which is Hostile Towards Free Software

Summary: It certainly 'feels' like SAP 'took over' SUSE and it has been 'long time coming'

A week ago the CEO of SUSE stepped down and there was a lot of media coverage about his successor, who had come from SAP, which is a Microsoft ally that was almost acquired by Microsoft at one point. The media, however, wasn't paying any attention to what happened to SUSE's official blog. Over the past couple of months it was almost 'hijacked' by SAP, as I pointed out repeatedly in social control media sites. I'd hate to use "tweets" as 'sources', but these mostly link to the originals from SUSE's own site. Here we go, in chronological order:

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1000379239017975808

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1001546524885766144

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1044834024747921408

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1045275571821969408

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1051033771556900866

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1061922605563891712

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1073814079201050624

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1083024864775151621

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1087464016216317955

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1091111190498029570

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1095774410898841600

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1095778944379428864

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1102108486647906305

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1104685510948208641

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1107999833363763200

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1113806610932076545

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1114939596771680259

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1115896525677375488

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1116020188145696771

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1117450406119071744

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1118577640863084544

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1119181050490568704

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1121829686315814914

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1122864497981521920

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1123162989484494848

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1123257396791582720

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1124134662333509632

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1124134823143063553

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1124219141857083392

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125309831299121153

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125446017854341121

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125580401936932864

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125580622624436224

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125589719570681866

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125814214545805312

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1125855093537087488

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1126184917895983104

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1128144490013892614

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1128864877135716353

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1133217006503772165

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1133766770555326464

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1137565207767769089

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1137925294638190592

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1138094732993802241

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1140821429384024066

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1146088207253159936

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1147166480733298689

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1148575689509154816

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1149096186499993607

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1149271123038789632

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1149289625812426752

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1149606902868824064

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1150930864391565323

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1151128234760609792

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1151409069024059392

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152039925019271170

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152057410267144193

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152247687254880256

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152888216980283392

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152894613147082752

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1152894822732181505

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153362895306141698

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153368349629386752

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153370431040163845

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153370842757259264

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153371390244003840

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153371952322682880

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153374002896867333

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153399751527862272

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153822803029716993

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153823394808209409

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153829344759836672

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153829797795155968

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153830021724868608

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1153863328294481921

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1154058592972103681

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1154120360339677185

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1154197867306897408

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1154614426915540993

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1155016052868358149

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1155349784405954565

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1155350148911947776

https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1155350493943742464

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