On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:24 AM Carlos F. Lange <carlosflange@gmail.com> wrote:

To add one more context to the discussion, have others seen the news today that SUSE is going Private?
https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/suse-go-private

I was catching up with this discussion and wondering what it means for openSUSE.

Gerald Pfeifer answered my question in the other mailing-list (opensuse-project). Copying his answer here for completion:
 

Hello fellow Geekos,

by now you have likely seen the news that openSUSE's main sponsor, SUSE, is expected to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and once again become a private company:

https://www.suse.com/news/EQT-announces-voluntary-public-purchase-offer-and-...

I have been personally assured this will have no negative impacts on openSUSE. SUSE's sponsorship of community projects like openSUSE is not changing. SUSE remains committed to supporting the openSUSE community.

Any questions, feel free to reach out.

Have a wonderful day, thank you for your involvement with the openSUSE project, and have a lot of fun!

Gerald Dr. Gerald Pfeifer gp@suse.com, CTO @SUSE + chair @openSUSE


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Carlos F Lange