Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?

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  • lemmyreaderOP
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    8 months ago

    openSUSE has German origins, but was bought in the past by Novell in USA, then went into other USA hands, and then it was sold to a Swedish company’s German sub division, and located in Luxembourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_S.A.

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      8 months ago

      And then they continued by not implementing the certified format correctly in Office anyway.

      Enter the hefty fines. Like 5% of last year’s revenue.