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.

BTW, there is a BIG difference between accepting corporate 
donations/contributions and being dependent upon a single sponsor!  
Mozilla is NOT a single product project.  They are a software 
development powerhouse!  Products like firefox and thunderbird are 
simply their most visible works.  For example, there are probably few 
websites of any significance, corporate or otherwise, that don't use 
Mozilla's xerces and xalan libraries.

oxala
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