Recently with the whole Novell signing a deal with M$ with SUSE (linux) and mod_security (apache) being sold off to a private corporation there's been a fiar bit of "hoo haa" in the open source world. Personally I don't really think any of the recent changes will have much of a detrimental impact on the community as a whole, or on the philosophy of open source, because the beauty of the GNU GPL is the ability to take source and fork it. That's what I personally think OpenSUSE should be doing, forking as far away from Novell / M$ as possible, and keep the linux distro (even though I personally think SUSE is a shite distro) as close to the community that supports it as possible.