Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Charles Wight <charles.wight@xxxxxxxxx>]

 On 09/16/2010 08:47 AM, C wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 15:37, Charles Wight wrote:
> > The only way OpenSUSE can ever be safe from the whims of the accountants and
> > financiers is to become independent of any single large corporate sponser.
> >   I don't see it happening ... so uncertainty is the prevalent reality ....
> What large open source project is actually independent of a large (or
> multiple) corporate sponsor?  OpenOffice.org has Oracle, Ubuntu has
> Canonical, openSUSE has Novell and so on.  There are a few
> single-application projects that may bumble along on their own, but
> it's a rare animal the size and scope of openSUSE that is actually
> independent.
>
> C.

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