Am Montag, 24. August 2009 13:31:59 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
Let's keep arguments about SLE products out of this.
Amen.
I am not sure why SUSE Linux Enterprise has a certain tendency to come up in discussions on this list, but more often than not it looks like a strawman. I am happy to discuss the Enterprise side of things, but this is just not the right context.
This is the openSUSE project, and our mission statement does not carry any reference to SUSE Linux Enterprise (or any commercial interests of Novell, for that matter).
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Actually this question has not been answered yet, i.e. whether whatever is decided for openSUSE or SLE is perceived as being related to the other product due to Novell being the major player behind both.
openSUSE is openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise is SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Of course there is a certain relation in that both use the Linux kernel, X.org, YaST, and hundreds of other Open Source packages; some people being paid to work on one also work on the other; users use both.
At the same time, the governance of the two is vastly different and decisions can -- and in fact are -- different, too. Think JFS, ext4, desktop environments, mutt vs alpine, and many more.
I think you missed the point. I was talking about perception of decisions and not how they actually come about. I may repeat myself: "If people inside and outside the community do not see openSUSE and SLE as mostly unrelated, then this question is surely not a distraction but crucial to understand how decisions regarding any Novell product or investment are perceived by others and hence their impact on the discussions lead in the community." Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org