On 09/16/2010 09:07 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
On 16.09.2010 15:37, Charles Wight wrote:
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.
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. A neat example of FUD again. Reduce a highly complex situation to a single sentence to emphasize the outcome you foretell. Nearly all the opensolaris infrastructure works untill today doesn't it? Especially communication channels and the like...
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 .... You certainly don't do anything to do change this. So why don't you just sit back and watch instead of telling the people who seriously try to do something about it that they are doomed to fail?
Put up or shut up Charles! :)
Henne
Hello Henne, The uncertainty is real, not FUD. OpenSOLARIS as an Oracle product is alive and well. The OpenSOLARIS "community" ended in the course of a day. Whether or not OpenSUSE survives as a product will depend upon it's value to Novell's successor. As for the "community", things are far less certain. Cheers, charles (but feel free to call me chicken little) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org