Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

["richard (MQ)" <osl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

noniko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I have read about many post about Novell-MS collaboration in
> opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx ML (Though it is an ML for general support....).
> 
> I'd like to how  openSUSE should think about this topic. I don't think
> it a weird question, because the "Microsoft/Novell Collaboration" news
> is at the top page of opensuse.org site.

I think a lot of the posts on this thread rather miss the point - once
big business gets involved in an organisation, the *only* thing that's
really important to them is the bottom line. Community spirit and F/OSS
values count for nothing to the accountants. This wasn't too visible
while SuSE were a smallish and essentially independent (?) German
company, but it's been increasingly evident from the moment that they
sold out to Novell.

My very real fear is that now, unless the OpenSuSE community can put
clear water between it and Novell, the developers, testers and other
supporters will find other distributions to work with and OpenSuSE will
wither. Retaining this support - and mine too, FWIW - is crucial.
Statements from Andreas may not be enough, however well thought through.
-- 
Richard.

* SuSE / OpenSuSE user since 5.2, whenever that was *
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