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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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While what you say is true it is also irrelevant to OPs question. SUSE is a corporation, so is canonical, so is mozilla's corporate wing. can you clarify what your point was, pal?
edit: ah, i used the word corporate, fair point then. I meant in the sense of vendor lock to defacto standards rather than 'corporate bad'.
They've made my life more enjoyable for reasonable cost, they bring vast amounts of resources to open source projects, and they deliver a platform that the least technical of people can use an enjoy. You're free to say they are not your friend, but i won't make perfect the enemy of good.