LOL, where do you get your outdated info.
The Microsoft settlement is one of the oldest sticks and exaggerations one
could throw. It was a lawsuit settlement between Novell and Microsoft over
patents.
NEWSBREAK.... Novell no longer owns SUSE and they never owned openSUSE.
Micro Focus International is the new owner of SUSE, and the first thing they
did was give SUSE autonomy, in other words, SUSE can do their own thing make
their own decisions and it is not based on Micro Focus. Also, frees them up
from the Novell settlement with Microsoft. Microsoft never owned SUSE anyway
that is funny.
Good try Magic, would expect better from you though.