On 16 October 2017 at 15:30, Cristian Rodríguez
El 15-10-2017 a las 15:29, Richard Brown escribió:
If anyone has any ideas they want to throw into the ring regarding our projects collaboration with these and other hardware vendors, please feel free to use this unexpected thread to do so.
So.. what are we getting in return ?.. I think that is a fair question to ask.. are they providing human resources or sponsorship of any kind to the project ?
We haven't really discussed in detail anything formally but ideas are bouncing around. Like I already said, they seem keen to contribute, so that's a start. More contributors is a good thing, isn't it? (BTW, I really hate the term 'human resources' - especially in a volunteer project. We're all people, thank you very much. Some of us are contributors also. None of us in the openSUSE Project are 'resources'.) Also they're going to be giving openSUSE to their users. That makes them our users. More users is a good thing, isn't it? More people getting openSUSE freshly installed on their laptop from their day of purchase is a good thing isn't it? It's in our best interest to make that experience as smooth as possible for those users, just as we strive to do for all of our users, isn't it? What else would you want? Not to be too philosophical about this but we're creating openSUSE and distributing it under a GPL collective work license, by design that means anyone can and is welcome to take openSUSE and redistribute it in it's entirety. They owe us nothing in return besides their contributions if they change what they've taken from us under that license. I don't think we tying addition preconditions would be in the spirit of what we're doing here, nor the environment of mutual collaboration we need in order to be able to keep this project operating sustainably. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org