On 09/16/2010 06:20 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
Truth be told, the stronger we make ourselves as an important "upstream" project of the SLE family, the more Novell, or its successor, or anyone, will take notice of us and recognize that we're here to stay and we do something very important here.
So, keep your heads focused on the prize -- openSUSE Project, and don't let the activities of our partners deter from what we are doing.
Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member
While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with DenverD, his post reflects a clear reality: the OpenSUSE "community" could effectively disappear in the course of a day. It just happened with Open Solaris. Read some of the blogs by former Open Solaris contributors! I think they provide some valuable lessons-learned. I suspect that whether or not OpenSUSE is or is not important to SLE (I've heard both sides of the argument here) is of no relevance. It's unlikely that the folk making the decisions will know anything about the project other than projected cost. The only way OpenSUSE can ever be safe from the whims of the accountants and financiers is to become independent of any single large corporate sponser. I don't see it happening ... so uncertainty is the prevalent reality .... oxala -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org