Hello, Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2024, 09:37:48 MESZ schrieb Attila Pinter:
On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 5:41 AM, Christian Boltz wrote:
OTOH, wait and see - and accepting the risk that we might have to act in 5, 10 or 100 years - avoids all the foreseeable and very real issues a rebrand will cause.
Something tells me that we're not going to have that much time. Call it an educated guess.
I'm more optimistic, but time will tell who (and if) one of us was right ;-)
And who knows, maybe a future owner of SUSE is a big fan of openSUSE and fulfils all our dreams. I know nobody mentioned this option before, but it's as likely or unlikely as the worst-case option.
Layoffs everywhere, RHEL combating the clones by closing the sources behind the paywall etc. Wouldn't have too high hopes...
This may sound crazy so bear with me, but what if we just respect the request of those who essentially keeps this project alive? [...]
I'm aware of all the SUSE contributions, and I did SUSE and/or individual SUSE people more than one favor (often, but not always, as part of an openSUSE contribution). I'm also sure that I'm not the only one who can say that - actually many openSUSE contributors can probably tell similar stories. Nevertheless, if someone from SUSE would ask me to shoot myself in the foot, and tells me that this is just a request, but I don't have to do it - well, you can probably guess that I prefer not to shoot ;-) The rebranding idea asks the whole openSUSE community to shoot in its foot, using a very big gun. It shouldn't be a surprise that I can only decline that request with "bad idea, no thanks". Regards, Christian Boltz -- The only way to stay away from such snafus is to stop using famous people for the code names, and go with animals or plants or city names or chemical elements - basically anything that does *not* have the capacity to come up with weird ideas and communicate them :-) [Olaf Kirch in opensuse-project]