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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by digi_owl on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:36PM (#12258190)
SUSE is owned by Novell.
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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by krylon on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:48AM (#12260688)
Not anymore, IIRC. When Novell was acquired by ... that company whose name I forgot (AttachMate?), SUSE was spun off as an independent company again.

At least that is how I remember it.

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by digi_owl on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:00PM (#12265034)
Yeah it seems things have gotten a bit more complicated than i remembered.

Novell bought Suse, then Novell merged with Attachemate, in the process Suse became a business unit (wholly owned company?) under Attachemate, then there was a merger between Attachemate and Micro Focus in 2014.

Anyways, i suspect that as Suse is FOSS, and was initially Germany based, and now is UK based, both being NATO allies, that DOD has few issues with continued usage.

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