Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (496 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Sebas!

On Apr 21, 11 12:56:57 +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> As you might know, there was a contract between Novell and open-slx, in which 
> both companies had agreed  that, among other things, open-slx would not start 
> an Enterprise version (very roughly put). This contract has been terminated 
> by 
> Novell recently, allowing open-slx to also announce an enterprise product. 

Rough indeed. I believe, the contract was mostly beneficial to open-slx.
Otherwise, open-slx would have exercised its right to terminate much
earlier.  No need to wait for Novell to take action.

> It seems you were not informed about that, although I have to point out
> that you could have read it in the press release. 

> From what I learned through the media, the contract may now expire (unless
renewed). The immediate announcement of an enterprise product was a
surprise to me.

        cheers,
                JW-

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