SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams

"Open Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS - but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone. For this vulture, the single most amusing revelation from any of the industry speakers at this year's Open Source Policy Summit was from SUSE's Dominic Laurie, who moderated the final panel discussion of the day, "Sovereignty and Procurement.""

"We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings! The other panelists looked surprised, and one, Polish MEP Michał Kobosko, immediately picked up on it: That was a bit of a giveaway! It most certainly was. SUSE is one of the Policy Summit's Gold-level sponsors, alongside Red Hat. The tagline for the event is "Digital Sovereignty Runs on Open Source" - but apparently SUSE does not run entirely on open source."

"Amusingly, the day before, The Reg sat in the audience at the CentOS Connect event and watched with interest as a Red Hat staffer in the row in front of us opened their laptop, signed into their Red Hat corporate Gmail account, and started going through their work email - occasionally pausing to get the Gemini LLM to emit some custom slop for them to paste into an email."

At the Open Source Policy Summit 2026, a SUSE executive inadvertently revealed SUSE uses Microsoft Teams by saying, "We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!" Polish MEP Michał Kobosko called the remark a giveaway. SUSE is a Gold-level sponsor of the summit whose tagline is "Digital Sovereignty Runs on Open Source." Observations indicate major enterprise FOSS vendors do not run exclusively on FOSS. A Red Hat staffer was seen using a corporate Gmail account and Gemini for email drafting. Former staffer Till Kamppeter confirmed Canonical's use of Gmail and Google Apps.

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