Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (94 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> W: Novell is not seen - like Red Hat - as Open Source friend `-> this is 
> definitely true. Maybe Novell could act as Sponsor for more oS events. 
> But first of all, Novell should communicate their aims clearly (besides 
> 'We support Linux, as long we are making money from it', which is what a 
> large part of the community thinks). Besides that, recently announced 
> Novell products like 'ZENworks Application Virtualization' are only 
> available for Windows and there are no clear statements if there will be 
> a Linux version available, ever (which Red Hat clearly communicated to 
> their community/customers with their latest virtualization product RHEV, 
> where all components will be available for Linux, too.)

Like everyone else in the industry Novell has it's own mission and
vision, and supporting various platforms (including Windows) is part
of that.  Also not every solution equally makes sense on every platform,
technically or commercially.  It's not as if Novell hadn't invested a
lot, and I mean a lot, of money into Linux so far. ;-)

And for a mature openSUSE project, Novell's intentions actually should not 
matter.  This is like a lot of other projects where it's the contribution 
that counts, and not the reasons (business, philantropy,...) in the end.

> S: decent .net support with mono (?)
> `-> this is only visible for a real small part of the community. Most
> of them does not really accept the joint-venture with M$ (which has
> not been communicated very well in the past) and see not benefits in
> Mono. We have to point out the real advantages of interoperability,
> here.

I do not see Mono and openSUSE linked in any specific way.  If openSUSE 
decides it wants to leverage Mono, fine.  If not, fine too.  Same if you 
replace openSUSE by Fedora or Debian or Mandriva or FreeBSD,...

> W: lots of cool features are not documented, thus not used or integrated

This has been one of our worst weaknesses and I was really happy to see 
how this improved nicely with some of the milestone releases.

Gerald
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