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On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:00:03 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:28:40 +0200, Jacek Marcin Jaworski wrote:
> 
>> Individual programmers start free and open software movement, but now
>> it is pure controlled by huge corpos.
> 
> Once they contribute the code, they no longer “control” it.

theregister.com/2025/09/12/opensuse_to_drop_bcachefs_support

I haven't followed the bcachefs controversy but Leap 16 is dropping Yast 
and other software? Since Leap is downstream of SLES I've got to assume 
EQT AB is running the show.