-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Nohl schrieb: |> I'm afraid you're right on that, but I hope that they at least |> appreciate the feedback they got from us. It could sometimes be more |> worth than an advice of a Goldman Sachs investment banker... ;) | Good point. Finnally you could ask yourself how long there will be a | community version of suse at all. Whether they don't listen to their | users demands or there won't be users because they went away to | another distro. | I ask again: If I'm forced to replace opensuse on some projects to a | distribution with a longer life cycle why should I keep opensuse on my | desktop? Let's brainstorm: 1. SLES with certificates, 24/7 support, provided warranties, etc and with several years of support agreement for a proper calculated charge. 2. Opensuse Community, bleeding edge, *only* downloadable, free of charge for guinea pigs like me. :) 3. Opensuse Comminity LTS, *only* privat-buyable, coz with no possibility of support agreement or warranties, with printed handbook, paying let say 100$ at once. Thus: Novel would cover existing demand. Novel gains indirectly on image and reputation. Most users would stick to the brand; To be honest, 100$ it's probably less painful then getting acquainted with a new distro. I do strong believe there will be not much companies substituting SLES with Opensuse LTS because most of the risk management routines in those companies would forbid it... but if so, then that would be IMO better for novel than let his users substitute Opensuse with e.g. Centos. Some of us, however, would really love to substitute Opensuse with Opensuse LTS e.g. for servers. A Opensuse LTS would thus generate an additional cash flow for novel or opensuse.org. The latest means less subvention for opensuse.org provided by novel or better salaries for the devs. I'm convinced that a LTS release would neither endanger the current position of Opensuse Community release nor make it obsolete for users. There is an urge among users for bleeding edge software which suits new hardware and make GNU/Linux look fancy. And btw no sane user would mix up a stable LTS with bleeding edge packages, and pay for that "comfort" 100$. Now the easy task: Calling a Goldman Sachs investment banker and let him valuate such an investment strategy... ...hopefully not by the means of WACC ;) - -- All the best, Peter J. N. aedon DESIGNS http://www.hochzeitsbuch.info http://www.hochzeitsbuch.selfip.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnfH9h8q3OtgoGAwRAjuFAJwPjVO6CSkf13cZ9ddKxpOaIWu5pACfajUi +IN2A1+wt8/uORE5TL71Vi8= =N89g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org