On Thursday 09 September 2010 13:40:21 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2010-09-09 11:30, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Initially our goal was to answer: “Who is openSUSE and what does it (want to) do?”[...] In five years the openSUSE project has evolved from a fully company-driven project to a communty project where everybody can contribute. This has brought uncertainty and a lack of direction.
It looks like Novell unilaterally decided to prioritize GNOME (back then), while the community always wanted KDE, but the latter was only really expressible after opening FATE to the public (votes are easier countable than emails to MLs apparently). Or something like that. I disagree to blaming openSUSE for causing the confusion.
Nobody is blaming openSUSE for this - this is just the way it worked out in this case.
Perhaps it's time to stop thinking of openSUSE as a "product" (that sounds just as corporate as "strategy"), and instead let it become a piece of art, or whatever people call theirs. (IIRC never seen the word "product" on debian.org, for instance.)
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