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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

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