On 12/04/2011 12:20 PM, Martin Schlander wrote:
Søndag den 4. december 2011 11:20:04 skrev Per Jessen:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2011-12-02 11:09:32 (+0100), jdd
wrote: Reading the Pascal platform, I was concerned by his declaration about foundation. Not to say he's not right :-)
Well it's just my opinion (ok, not just mine), it's definitely open for debate, and I'm fine being proven wrong :)
The only thing I would really like to see happening is a discussion about it. I firmly believe it was the right thing to do at the time where we took that decision, but I'm not convinced it still is right now: the situation has changed.
How has it changed exactly? We know the ownership of SUSE has changed, but how is that significant wrt the creation of the openSUSE foundation?
For me the main attraction of the foundation is that it could ideally provide some assurance to contributors that the openSUSE project wouldn't just wither and die, if (god forbid) something nasty (hostile acquisition, bankruptcy, insane management etc.) should happen to SUSE.
I think those types of concerns are holding quite some people back from using and contributing to openSUSE.
That's sound reasonable. But and there's a big one! Did that foundation able to enforce all the rights it will have to defend? Past as proved that Novell's Layers staff has done a good work on it (remember the SCO case) Actually, now the deal is done with Attachmate, and the excellent relationship we (community) have with SuSE (business unit) and Attachmate (SuSE owner) calm down the need to be "independent". -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org