Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

[Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 May 2007 22:45, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Martin Schlander wrote:
> ...
>
> > Also I think some of the goals can be seen as contradictory - making an
> > OS that's great for devs and grandmothers at the same time might prove
> > difficult. Maybe we could balance it more by saying something like "we
> > want to create a powerful, full featured OS, while making it fairly easy
> > to use".
>
> I definitely second that.
> Saying that we want to do the best for everyone in every situation
> (almost, didn't mention embedded systems ;)) is also quite vague in
> terms of mission statement, directions or priorities.
>
> I don't have a better proposal atm (Martin's suits me quite well), but
> we should think of a _somewhat_ narrowed scope.
> SUSE is most probably the best allround distribution around right now,
> and it _is_ good at desktop and server. But still, aiming for all goals
> is difficult... and vague.

You are right, that aiming for all possible goals is vague. But isn't being an 
allround distro a pretty specific goal? My feeling is that this is a big part 
of the SUSE identity. We always tried to address a very broad range of users. 
In some way this is trying to reach the impossible, but that's not the worst 
for a mission statement. Let's leave the realistic goals to the intermediate 
steps to world domination ;-)

Maybe we can find a better way to say this, which doesn't sound so vague.

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Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@xxxxxxx>
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