Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

["Carlos Ribeiro" <CRibeiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply Requested by 6/8/2010 (Tuesday) **

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> > As I'm sure you have been following previous discussions, the openSUSE
> > Board is moving towards establishing a Foundation.  This Foundation's
> > intent is to give the Community some measure of control and influence on
> > the project.   However, it does not mean we intend to remove Novell from
> > our project as a main sponsor.  Their contributions to openSUSE is
> > invaluable, and regardless of the future of Novell, we intend to
> > continue to build upon this partnership as well as partnerships with
> > other sponsors of openSUSE.

> To get significant sponsorship from other corporate players, opensuse
> needs independence from Novell.  The Novell/Microsoft relationship is
> repulsive to other players.

Trifle Menot, I heard this kind of applause/comments for the last 3 years. ;-).
 
    The kernel version changes, Novell changes, also we had some BIG CHANCES 
and TROUBLES into the worldwide financial market, Barack Obama was elected as 
US number one as first non-white guy in the history, also we finally have CERN 
improving their labs, ....
    As you can see the world is changing in constant evolution. Maybe this is a 
kind of sign to you reflect some of your points and change the man you see in 
the mirror. Don't you think?

   We must believe that datacenters are heterogeneous platforms nowadays, how 
can we deliver a better interoperability that helps EVERYONE and EVERY COMPANY 
that uses EVERY SYSTEMS in this fast and competitive world without players like 
Novell, Microsoft, IBM, Google.... ?
take a look at www.moreinterop.com I quite sure you will be amazed how much 
benefits that partnership was for us.


> > With regards to infrastructure control, such as bugzilla and other
> > areas, like OBS, we certainly are not going to move forward and start
> > dismantling that relationship at this time, simply because of rumors

> Nurture the main sponsor relationship, but don't be dependent on their
> infrastructure.  It's a question of organization, and the willpower to
> do the boring work of reorganizing it.



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