On 6/11/19 8:24 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:11, Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 11.06.19 um 14:06 schrieb Richard Brown:
But I do think this example illustrates some of the factors we need to consider on this topic besides the emotive "but we like the current name" feeling :)
I'd suggest to start thinking about a name change for the project (not the foundation!, the foundation can be named whatever you want) once reports of such progress hindering events that happened to impact the future of the project because it was still named "openSUSE" have been seen in reality.
Right now that feels to me like (lots of) "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt".
And the more I read of it, the more I think "no fscking way am I going to support a name change".
;-)
I understand your point of view.
Hopefully you can understand that there is no way I will ever share the past examples of sponsorships, service arrangements, or other contracts that have already fallen apart due to the current "SUSE is not openSUSE" discrepancy,
I think that should not be an expectation.
which will be no different if we have a "FOOFoundation is not openSUSE" discrepancy.
This is speculation. IANAL but one should be able to imaging a charter for the "FOOFoundation" to be written such that any concern about wher ethe money goes is elliviated. "The FOOFoundation exists for the sole purpose to support the activities of the openSUSE project ....." And yes this too is speculation as IANL and I certainly have no insight into what goes on in those companies that might want to sponsor openSUSE but have an issue with giving the money to a Foundation of another name. Later Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Architect LINUX Technical Team Lead Public Cloud rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org