Tirsdag den 8. juni 2010 14:21:05 skrev Trifle Menot:
I hear rumors Novell is for sale. Will opensuse get its own bugzilla independent from Novell? And what else needs to be done for opensuse to gain full independence?
I can no longer resist to share my 2 cents on some of the topics touched in this discussion. For me corporate backing is a motivator for contributing to openSUSE - and any significant corporate backing without giving away at least some control is unrealistic imho. It is true that there are some risks involved with investing your time and emotions in something that is fairly dependent on the whims of some corporate suits and market fluctuations, but there's also risks involved when contributing to a pure community based project like Debian - e.g. the release of all your hard work may be delayed for 6 months because of licence discussions. Of course it would be desirable to have some form of "guarantee" that openSUSE won't just go away. For Ubuntu this sense of security was achieved by Mark Shuttleworth putting 20 million USD in a foundation. Maybe it would be worth it for Novell to consider doing something similar when/if an openSUSE foundation is formed. There has been some mention of the other sponsors, but open-slx wasn't mentioned. Personally I find what open-slx are doing extremely interesting - since they are actually trying to monetize openSUSE. Something Novell never wanted to do, since Novell is greatly (and mistakenly so) underestimating the relevance of the consumer market. Open-slx have been hiring some people, and hopefully they'll be succesful and grow more influential - and hopefully other companies will copy this model and try to monetize openSUSE too. Regarding the MS deal. There can be no doubt that it was extremely damaging to openSUSE in terms of PR - and to some extent continues to be so even now, and probably will be for years to come. That is true regardless of whether the deal itself was "evil" or not - and is just something we have to live with. I'm not sure openSUSE being formally independent would stop Novell actions from affecting the way people perceive openSUSE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org