On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 13:50:46 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
Am 26.07.2011 10:27, schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
The patent side is really not the big part of the deal, it's about interoperability and selling - making customers happy and earning money for SUSE;).
I know, but for a home user, this isn´t so important then the patent side (okay, in Europe, the patent side isn´t a big problem, but I think in the USA, people are thinking about it.)
I have read a lot about people who are very confused about Microsoft and their patent trolling. We as the openSUSE Ambassadors should at least try to take away the potential fear of these users.
Let's not market the patent side at all. If we promote the patent side, we will just have lengthy discussions with open source advocates. If we promote it, we tell people that there might be something fishy - and there's nothing fishy about patents in open source. Microsoft will not go after e.g. Fedora, Debian or openSUSE users. Ambassadors, have you really seen potential fear here? Then let's create a common language against that - but not one that our competition can use against us, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org