Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

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<snip lots of stuff I agree with>

> It seems to me the sensible thing to do is to stay aware of the situation
> with Novell and *if* something happens to the company, react to that
> announcement *when it happens* because the odds of the entire
> infrastructure just being powered off the instant an announcement is made
> are really quite small.  In the incredibly unlikely event that situation
> were to happen, a core group (the board) would already know how to
> contact each other and start work to get an infrastructure up, domain
> names transferred and so on, and get the systems back online as soon as
> possible.

Here I disagree.  There is the possibility that at some time (sooner or
later) OS will need an alternative supplier of infrastructure.  It is
sensible for any organisation to prepare plans (but not enact them) against
such a major and likely eventuality.  Maybe the board is already doing so.

David


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