Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (103 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 02/23/2010 02:19 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 23 février 2010, à 11:56 +0100, Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
> > I welcome this discussion, and think its a necessary one, but i would
> > like to discuss it uncoupled from this example. So what is our answer to:
>
> I think one reason people might feel it's hard to uncouple the
> topic from this example is that Canonical distributes Ubuntu and does
> the Music Store for Ubuntu, which is a competitor of the openSUSE
> project.
>
> In this specific case, that means supporting one competitor. Which
> might affect how people think of the issue.

I understand but isn't this fact then "just" another moral question?
Something along the lines of:

Do we want to hamper with our competition?

It's probably trickier to answer than the other one because we have not
established a behavior pattern already. My personal stance on this would
be: No we don't. And specifically for this case: Ubuntu/Canonical is not
our competition, they are part of the worldwide Free and Open Source
community we mingle with. They are brothers and sisters. If they make a
buck out of a music store I'm happy for them!

Henne

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