Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Richard <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun September 7 2008 7:40:47 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Monday 2008-09-08 at 01:05 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > > Do you really think that threats like this or "my company will not use
> > > > openSUSE anymore" add anything to the discussion or will change anything?
> > > If a client warns me that he will not buy my product if I implement a
> > > certain change, I would take that very seriously.
> >
> > Sure thing.  In the case of openSUSE it's more "use" than "buy", though.
> > ;-)
>
> Rrrright  :-)
>
> Although sles was also mentioned somewhere, you can modify the above: if a
> certain change of a free/gratis product would generate less users wanting
> it, I wold worry; unless I made that product for my own use, and the rest
> of the users were thus meaningless for me ;-)
Correct Carlos, openSuSE is the 'proving ground' for SLES/SLED in the sense 
that if people that try openSuSE are turned off by it because it gets a bad 
reputation, that easily translates into poor sales of the money products 
because a lot of the decision makers are also users of openSuSE in their 
private lives.

Richard

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