Collaboration Summit/ELC Joint Reception. Markus Rex is on the right.

According to some new posts, the Microsoft-sponsored SUSE is not just making events of its own but also has its representatives visit others. Basically, the SUSE bias is dangerous because its end goal is to promote SLE* (whether intentional or not), which is taxed by Microsoft and promotes the use of proprietary software from Microsoft, as we last showed this afternoon. Over the years (since 2006) we have covered many examples where SUSE took actions which directly harmed GNU/Linux but promoted SUSE, often at the expense of other distributions and not UNIX, Windows, or Mac OS. Who does that really help? And who is actually making money from SUSE? That would be Microsoft. The only suggestible thing that can counter this trend is the discouragement of SUSE promotion in any of the FOSS and Linux events. SUSE promotion is partly funded by Microsoft (there was recently another cash infusion). It is Microsoft that gains from all that. Avoid SUSE sponsorships (Microsoft money) and do not give it much room or positive exposure. That is all we can advise one does when setting up a conference. ⬆