2010/6/8 Trifle Menot <triflemenot@beewyz.com>:
If Novell pulls the power plug, your project infrastructure immediately collapses. The "community" is not strong enough to step in and turn the power back on. As long as that's true, you're still a fetus.
Why should Novell "pull the power plug"? If you read the last financial reports of Novell, SUSE Linux is one of their strong points, and it's not that SUSE Linux Enterprise comes out from nowhere thanks to some magic. It is based on openSUSE, and I feel free to believe openSUSE has a nice role in making SLE better, with a wider and free testing base. With all the criticism I had for Novell, and sometime I still have about some aspect, I have to say they tried hard to make openSUSE more open, sometime it worked, sometime it did not, but the effort was more on their side than on the community side. Novell, in spite of all the noise and the attacks, continued supporting open source project more than many others who talks with a loud voice and judge all the time. I'm clearly not going to say everything has been perfect, but Novell surely deserves a bit more respect, instead of being considered only the company that "could unplug the power cord", because until now it has been the company who has kept that power cord plugged in, while facing a lot of hostility from many parts. You say the community is not strong enough. True or not, Novell has a limited role in changing this, and surely is a significant part of the community with its contributions. The community can become stronger if external people contributes and keeps contributing. P.S. We had so many discussions about the Novell/Microsoft deal that ended up nowhere already. It is a fact that the deal was not the disaster someone was foreseeing. Let's move on and talk of the topics of actual interest for openSUSE. Thanks. :-) Best, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org