BTW, don't you mean "American-owned foreign companies like SuSe"?
Of course, I said "trojan horse" if you missed that part. What does SuSe offer us, in all reality? They've never even made a profit I don't believe, have been projecting one 'next year' forever. Now the free software whiners will be constantly pestering Novell to "open source" everything, just like they do Sun and Red Hat. Those two companies have done more for open source than Torvalds and Stallman, but the fanatics would just as soon burn them at the stake because they charge for some (now most) of their stuff.