Marcel LUX III SARL (Marcel) as the largest shareholder in SUSE is planning to take the company private and delist it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. SUSE will be merged with an unlisted Luxembourg entity. Marcel currently owns a 79% stake in SUSE.

SUSE.com press release

  • lazyraccoon@lemmy.ml
    73·
    11 months ago

    I made a comment on a redhat criticism not too long ago about it leaving debian and SUSE as the viable options.

    Whelp… Better cross SUSE off…

      • Shareni@programming.dev
        71·
        11 months ago

        When Suse was privately owned by Nowell they helped Microsoft screw over the entire Linux community for over a decade.

        • bellsDoSing@lemm.ee
          7·
          11 months ago

          The past doesn’t necessarily dictate the future. If the people in charge of SUSE’s direction going forward think way differently than the one’s back in regards to your comment, then the outcome can be different / better for the Linux community, can’t it?

          • lazyraccoon@lemmy.ml
            4·
            11 months ago

            You’re both correct, there is no guarantee that the new owner will necessarily be bad… But I hold distrust against such moves.

            We’ll wait and see, I guess.

          • Shareni@programming.dev
            1·
            11 months ago

            For sure, I’m just giving it as a counter to most people in the thread thinking privately owned must be better than publicly.