Am 22.04.2011 20:10, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
Hi Kim,
On Friday, April 22, 2011 18:11:43 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
thanks, so we don´t support Balsam, that´s the answer of my question. Well, this thread is solved and I think, we don´t need to talk about how Balsam harms Novell business, and can continue working on our projects. It is important to think about two aspects, before taking such a decision.
First, what does it mean to not support Balsam? Is this about Balsam Enterprise, or Professional, and in which way support it? What mandate do, or anyone who takes such a decision? Can you tell others to do or not do something like this? It's fine as a personal choice, of course, but as you talk of we, you'll also need to define what this means, for whom.
Second, there the exclusivity issue. By not supporting Balsam, you disallow a company that invests into openSUSE to not take part in the community. This makes openSUSE as a project very unattractive to anyone who wants to do business with it (and potentially invest into it), and who is not Novell or Attachmate. Instead of making the future of the project safer, you are closing the projects to others, and you're increasing the dependency on one company. If you want to spread the risk, it is important to encourage companies that invest into openSUSE, and not just pick one exclusively. With "We" I mean the people who take part of this discussion and belong to the the openSUSE project. As an example Pascal and Greg.
Of course it´s free to everyone to support Balsam. That´s not in my hand and is your personal choice. thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org