On Friday 07 December 2012 13:30:57 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 07.12.2012 13:21, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
If we look around us, then we see that a majority of the users of linux distributions are talking about the fact that a small group of people are making decisions for them.
Who does, decides. One of the basic principles that makes FOSS great. Why would we give that up?
So if I put in all the time that I have and make big changes (e.g. remove the need for an initrd, replace systemd with Upstart, etc), then the openSUSE community would really allow me to implement those changes in Factory ? The above is just an example, but I am sure that you agree that not everything falls into the category of "Who does, decides". Certain elements are based on a SUSE strategy, upstream strategy, etc. It is up to us as a community (indeed) to see what would fit in the distro and what not. But wouldn't if be even better to validate those things against our userbase ? Some great ideas to make openSUSE even better might live among those that are not a community member or believe that they do not have the abilities to contribute to the project. In the end if we are becoming a Foundation and we want to raise money, then we are becoming dependent on our userbase. Ignoring them now, could mean they will ignore us when we want something from them. But the greatness of FOSS is that everybody has freedom of choice. So I am sure that there might be people that agree with me and there will be a lot of people that do not agree with me. Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org