Søndag den 23. maj 2010 00:53:45 skrev Bryen M. Yunashko:
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 22:13 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
Like everyone else in the industry Novell has it's own mission and vision, and supporting various platforms (including Windows) is part of that. Also not every solution equally makes sense on every platform, technically or commercially. It's not as if Novell hadn't invested a lot, and I mean a lot, of money into Linux so far. ;-)
And for a mature openSUSE project, Novell's intentions actually should not matter. This is like a lot of other projects where it's the contribution that counts, and not the reasons (business, philantropy,... ) in the end.
This is important to point out, indeed. We may certainly be tempted to say "What more can Novell do for us?" as part of our strategy, and yes, Novell is an important contributor to openSUSE. But as we continue to offer up our thoughts here on this thread, its also important to talk about what WE as a community can do strategically for our project.
In my opinion this is (or at least should be) mainly about leadership and direction. The direction shouldn't just be randomly made up of the sum total of random contributions by random individuals as we go along. Leadership and direction and clear goals are critical to succeed in free software too. I don't see how leadership could come from outside Novell - or at least it would be futile to try to lead the distribution in any direction that is not carefully aligned with Novell interests and man power. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org