As long as opensuse is a child of Novell, the politics of the deal will impede the growth of opensuse. Independence is necessary for attaining maturity.
This clearly shows you didn't understand the deal itself, what came out of it and quite some other things. I still remember big statements about the deal and its consequence (a big and famous Linux-only company said it would have meant the end of Novell in one year, to cite one example). The reality is that all the negative predictions about the deal were, considering today's reality, wrong. There are many open source projects that are not independent from other companies. Fedora depends on Red Hat, Ubuntu depends on Canonical, and so on. Depending on Novell, or on other companies is exactly the same. It's not the deal to make any difference. Other companies signed similar deals, maybe better masked, but substantially similar, and the fact there is a lot of noise only around Novell should make you think a bit more about the reasons of why this happened. If you know someone with the financial resources Novell is investing in Linux and openSUSE, and with a lot of desire to sponsor openSUSE, feel free to tell us however ;-) Best, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org