Am 20.04.2011 22:10, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
Jos is actually a friend of mine, when he's not hanging out in Brazil, he lives about an hour by train from here =)
We actually are working together really well, just not on every level, and that is fine. With more companies than Novell, Attachmate alone getting involved in openSUSE (which is a good thing, as it grows the community and makes it more stable also on a corporate level), there need to be clear boundaries between direct contributions. We contribute a lot on the code level, my colleague Rupert is on the opensuse board, and our code output ends up directly upstream, either inside upstream repos such as KDE's git, or the OBS (most recently in KDE:Active). My colleague Sascha is also quite active on the news team, you probably know him:)
I personally prefer sitting down and getting the job done, and mostly blog about it. I don't write much to opensuse-project, as you know.
Yeah, I know Sascha, of course. A nice guy. So, what you´re writting about Attachmate and Novell and so on, there are my hopes that it would be catch up into the openSUSE foundation.
Your product looks really interesting and "Balsam Enterprise" is a big chance for SLE to take over the market leadership (Look at Red Hat. RHEL is so successfull because there two clones and they allow you to test RHEL till whenever you want... A free SLE-clone would make SLE more open and of course, more successfully, believe me.) I think so, too. There's a distinct hole in the market between service levels and pricing of SLES, and openSUSE itself. Very recently, Novell has removed some contractual hurdles, and made it possible for us to offer something like Balsam Enterprise, modeled after how CentOS relates to RedHat, or put simply, an LTS for openSUSE outside the enterprise market. The customer gets more independence and better choice, more of the market is covered. That's a win for openSUSE as base technology and community, as you say.
But the whole story needs following: * Complete rebranding of the product * free updates * free support by the SLE-clone community If these things don´t happen really, it´s just a waste of time, and you´d better join the openSUSE community fulltime. thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org