Please don't feel insulted. I have written nothing to degrade your efforts, unless you find candid discussions of product shortcomings degrading. I have not said anything about anyone's motives other than my own. I have only asked the question: what happens to OpenSUSE if current paid resources are removed? Well, thats a question like "What happens if the sky falls down on the
It could be rephrased: who will pay your salary if Novell does not? Are you going to sneak into head hunting business? Seriously, how could anyone of us know that now? And, as one having been to IT industry for long now, I can tell you that companies are bought now and than. They also might go away, get renamed or whatever. But good ideas and enthusiastic
On Thursday 16 September 2010 21:14:23 Charles Wight wrote: Hi, project?" people stay and do good stuff. And if a project is driven with power, expertise, fun and good results, there will always be others joining in and spend their time and also money on it. And openSUSE is a very prominent project I guess ;-)
These are questions, not statements. Questions nobody can answer.
I can appreciate that these sorts of questions may be uncomfortable. But if the "strategy" wants to attract more contributors, can such questions go unasked? The alignment of corporate/community interests embodied by projects such as OpenSUSE, Fedora, Open Solaris, and others presents unique risks and rewards to both the community and corporate sponsor. As usual, stuff is done by the people who roll up their sleeves and work. Projects and their progress are not made in meeting rooms but on the keyboard.
So if you want to help, as others have already said, do not spread incertitude but go and work: Help the board, find donators for hardware, pizza and stuff, contribute wherever it suits you best, simply make your hands dirty.
For someone that hasn't stepped up to help, you are sure talking big... Are you planning on running mail servers, forums, wikis, blogs, build service, etc. The infrastructure is huge and definitely expensive if you think about just the man hours, bandwidth, hardware, and facilities.
"talking big" ... maybe ... I am well aware of the infrastructure required to maintain large software development efforts ... hence the nature of my questions ... what is OpenSUSE less Novell? As an individual interested is supporting free software, is it arrogant to want to know that OpenSUSE - NOVELL > 0.
It is not arrogant, it is waste of time, fun and energy. And as said, even if openSUSE-Novell == 0, openSUSE-Novell+sum( all_of_us ) is much larger than 0.
But MOST IMPORTANT ... PLEASE DO NOT BE INSULTED ... nothing I write here is personal toward anyone.
Ok, than back to work :-) Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org