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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by sh4dowhe4rt@social.vivaldi.net to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

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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 โ€œEARโ€) 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

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[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] Bogus007@lemm.ee -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 SUSEโ€™s significant connections to U.S. corporations.

[โ€“] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quite a few distros use systemd.

[โ€“] Bogus007@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[โ€“] sh4dowhe4rt@social.vivaldi.net -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@Successful_Try543 that simply show that the potential aquisition is not done and it's remain US based

[โ€“] chrib@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The acquisition was completed in 2019 and currently SUSE S.A. (Sociรฉtรฉ Anonyme) has is corporate headquarters in Luxemburg.

[โ€“] sh4dowhe4rt@social.vivaldi.net -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@chrib yeah sure and the licensing than push it under US law is for a joke ...

[โ€“] chrib@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Just use a search engine and search for โ€žsuse eqtโ€œ.