On 04.12.2011 17:33, jdd wrote:
What we would need is a foundation which is kind of like the GNOME foundation
exactly. This is the final goal, but certainly not befor several years, at best.
Then, is there a chance to might get some help from the GNOME guys who established the foundation?
It's really a lot more complicated that just "oh let's do a foundation", which is one of the reasons it's taking so much time :\
well, if you don't begin, you never reach anything. Libreofice or Blender are examples of success
+1
more control over its own fate, funds, actions. And that means we can communicate more with people from SUSE for taking decisions and doing stuff, rather than with execs from Novell who, frankly have always be
is there any publicly available report of success of SUSE, Red Hat or Canonical?
Haven´t seen a real report, actually, but I know that Red Hat had a total revenue of $1 billion. SUSE? I don´t know. I only now that they are very successfully in Europe. Canonical still gets a lot of money from Mark Shuttleworth. Once he won´t doing this anymore, we can compare them to the other big players of the Linux world ;-)
we have both to make our sponsor happy and the contributors community happy
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