James, thanks for that Monday morning news link. I've added it to the response (since someone asked on Sunday) at https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-s-acquisition-of-Red-Hat-hurt-the-open-source-community/answer/David-Ing-4

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/364649/ibm-acquires-red-hat-for-34b?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=whatsnewnow&utm_medium=title

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