Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <albert.passalacqua@xxxxxxxxx>]

> As long as opensuse is a child of Novell, the politics of the deal will
> impede the growth of opensuse.  Independence is necessary for attaining
> maturity.

This clearly shows you didn't understand the deal itself, what came
out of it and quite some other things. I still remember big statements
about the deal and its consequence (a big and famous Linux-only
company said it would have meant the end of Novell in one year, to
cite one example). The reality is that all the negative predictions
about the deal were, considering today's reality, wrong.

There are many open source projects that are not independent from
other companies. Fedora depends on Red Hat, Ubuntu depends on
Canonical, and so on. Depending on Novell, or on other companies is
exactly the same. It's not the deal to make any difference. Other
companies signed similar deals, maybe better masked, but substantially
similar, and the fact there is a lot of noise only around Novell
should make you think a bit more about the reasons of why this
happened.

If you know someone with the financial resources Novell is investing
in Linux and openSUSE, and with a lot of desire to sponsor openSUSE,
feel free to tell us however ;-)

Best,
A.
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