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[aledr <matrixworkstation@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Dominique
Leuenberger<Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 8/18/2009 at 15:18, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The latest developments have me in a pondery: at every entry re an
> > application listed in Yast/software management I have looked at so far
> > there is the entry, "Supportability : unknown". In other words, to my
> > way of thinking, Novell takes no responsibility for the software which
> > it provides as part of openSUSE.
>
> 'Novell' is just a community member contributing to the project, just as you 
> and me. Why would you expect the 'person' with the name 'Novell' to be
> more liable to this project than anybody else?
>
> Dominique
>
> (No, I'm not affiliated with the company 'Novell'. This is my view of the 
> things).

It's very easy to see that decisions at **open**SUSE are not driven by
a community thought.
Some of the community achievements are widely reported by Novell as
its own achievements on web and so on with the distro policies...
Maybe because Novell products are based on openSUSE (the community distro???)?

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