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That does sound pretty cool.

Who owns Suse again? Do they have a social contract? How's their democratic decision making? Do they properly separate non-free software from their free packages?

- Debian User.

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I wrote a rather long mailinglist post that should answer a lot of those questions..

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2016-02/msg00003...

and one question that doesn't get answered by that link - yes, we properly separate non-free software from our free packages

"Who Owns It" seems to be a company owned by a company floated on the stock markets. But with excellent community input.

That company is apparently actually making money selling at-least-mostly-free software, while supporting the properly-free openSuse.

Is that about right?

That's probably better than being Shuttleworth's toy.

Looks easily enough forked if needed.

I think I'd feel weird about going back to a OS supported by a for-profit rather than a charity, but that test suite does sound top.

I may give it a go for a while at least, next time I have to reinstall.

Cheers for making me pay some attention to it ;)

I'd say that's a fair assessment :)

SUSE isn't your typical 'for-profit', and the nature of the relationship with openSUSE reflects that

Thanks for the consideration

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