On 2010-12-05 19:27:02 (+0000), Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@web.de> wrote:
On 04/12/10 18:40, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Why should we "respect" Novell's wishes?
Because Novell is the biggest sponsor of the openSUSE project, and working against your sponsor isn't such a good idea, I'd say. As pointed out in my email and Pascal's email, RedHat's attitude towards a CentOS clone seems to differ from Novell's attitude towards a proposed openSLES. RedHat seems to tolerate the free CentOS, they even seem to benefit from this project - they will not say so in public but you hear those stories now and then. Novell doesn't seem to be keen on an openSLES, at least that's the opinion that has been mentioned on various mailing lists in the past. Whether that's an official opinion, I don't know. I also don't know
Yes, it is. At least, the person I spoke to about that last year is definitely representative of Novell in this regard.
who was in touch with Novell management or whoever is responsible for
I was.
answering questions regarding a free SLES clone.
The person I asked :) I will ask again and will also ask whether it may be quoted, or let that person write an email about it herself. But I won't quote without an agreement from that person -- not that anyone needs to get conspiracy theories going, it is just plain politeness. Just give me a couple of days to get back on this. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org