On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
The one fundamental asset of IT companies is technology. If they fail there they're doomed. No marketing, no legal department has ever saved an IT company that had made bad technological decisions.
The converse is also true: No technology has ever saved an IT company that made bad legal (or to a lesser degree, possibly, marketing) choices.
Plus, in my experience, sane and sound technological moves are being well appreciated in most places. In the long run products (from the open source angle) succeed because of good technology. Not because of smart legal moves.
Openess and Open Source are cornerstones of openSUSE and I have full expectation of the core openSUSE distribution heading more and more towards a fully Open Source solution. At the same time, we surely can (and should) make sure proprietary add-ons like fonts, Flash, RealPlayer, Java,... are enabled and easily consumable for those that want to leverage those. Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Inbound Product Mgmt T +49(911)74053-0 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise F +49(911)74053-483 GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org