On Sat 2023-05-13, Eric Schirra wrote:
So, the more openSUSE users, the less users who support SLES at work.
Do you mean "fewer" instead of "more"? Even then I'm not convinced there is such a straightforward correlation. On Sun 2023-05-14, Richard Brown wrote:
So really, no, you cannot make a strong argument that SUSE needs to invest in openSUSE's userbase for it's business. SUSE will invest in it's userbase.
I'd argue that SUSE also is supportive of and investing in the openSUSE userbase. As for openSUSE, I believe we need to invest in *both* users and contributors, not the least since the latter often recruit themselves from the former. On Sun 2023-05-14, Sarah Julia Kriesch wrote:
Sometimes I pitied your crisis Manager.
To the best of my knowledge there is no such role within SUSE (though indeed one of mine sometimes feel like it
In the same time you did your default "marketing only" presentations with the goal to keep all the knowledge.
Not sure who "you" refers to here. If it's about presentations by Richard, personally I found all I recall interesting and helpful, consistently among the best I have seen at various events. In any case this looks like a bold, unsubstantiated, and inappropriate allegation regarding Richard's, or someone else's, motives.
The SUSE user base would be bigger, if you all would be allowed to represent your knowledge and your products.
I really do not know what you are trying to imply. SUSE employees are allowed to share their knowledge regarding technologies, open source projects, and SUSE products at conferences, open source events, on mailing lists, and in many, many other ways.
Your competitors have received more new customers than SUSE - or better said - they have received your rejected customers.
This really is not the right place to discuss SUSE policies, SUSE's business, nor veiled insinuations or anecdotal stories related to these. Let's stick to openSUSE matters, please, shall we? Gerald