Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> The one fundamental asset of IT companies is technology. If they fail 
> there they're doomed. No marketing, no legal department has ever saved 
> an IT company that had made bad technological decisions.

The converse is also true:  No technology has ever saved an IT company 
that made bad legal (or to a lesser degree, possibly, marketing) choices.

> Plus, in my experience, sane and sound technological moves are being
> well appreciated in most places. In the long run products (from the
> open source angle) succeed because of good technology. Not because of
> smart legal moves.

Openess and Open Source are cornerstones of openSUSE and I have full
expectation of the core openSUSE distribution heading more and more
towards a fully Open Source solution.

At the same time, we surely can (and should) make sure proprietary
add-ons like fonts, Flash, RealPlayer, Java,... are enabled and easily
consumable for those that want to leverage those.

Gerald
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