On 2011-04-20 19:16:43 (+0200), Kim Leyendecker <kimleyendecker@hotmail.de> wrote: [...]
The two Balsam products would realize this missed "feature". Are we support these guys at open-SLX who are creating this distro?
1) never announced on any of the opensuse mailing-lists or forums or whatever or, if so, very well hidden 2) none of us non-openslx-employees-opensuse-community-members have ever heard of it until very recently, by chance 3) there has not been any request for permission to use the openSUSE trademarks for this derivative work 4) its description says it adds proprietary packages and drivers to openSUSE -- I wonder which and if it's nVidia or ATI/AMD or madwifi drivers, it would infringe on the kernel license (GPL), reason for which Novell is not including it in the distribution nor its repositories, nor allowing it to be hosted on any server on Novell's infrastructure 5) given the name "Balsam" and it's German meaning ("putting balsam on someone's heart" = "soften the pain"), and the lack of communication (to say the least), as well as one infamous initiative open-slx took recently with community.open-slx.de, it does make me wonder whether they just believe that we suck and that they have to solve everything on their own without involving us at all The last bit (point 5) is interpretation or, rather, a personal opinion. But the rest is a bunch of facts. I'll let you do your own interpretation whether an effort like that needs our support or not. If desired at all. Given the amount of announcements, discussions, and communication that has happened so far (none), I would rather doubt it. That being said, it's just my very personal 0.02€ on this. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf