Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Pfeifer:

> 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.

The most prominent example to prove you wrong was Apple (between 
Jobs). They survived some pretty questionable legal and marketing 
decisions. I think they did because their core asset (a deep-rooted 
in-house techie culture) was rock solid.

> 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.

While this sounds sweet I fail to see how Novell/opensuse wants to 
help the process when they choose RealPlayer for its default music 
player like they did for opensuse 11.

> 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.

Ok, given you don't agree to lock-in, inferior technology etc. Which 
you're almost always forced to do with proprietary stuff.

I think instead of chasing proprietary add-ons (you'll never fully get 
it anyway) key distributions should put way more time and energy into 
coming up with original concepts.

Wolfgang
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