On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 19:41, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:37 PM Ronan Chagas <ronisbr@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Richard,
Em 11 de jun de 2019, à(s) 09:06, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> escreveu:
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 :)
Indeed this was very informative. I was not thinking that deep. Well, now you gave me an understandable “case study".
One question: openSUSE has a massive investment of SUSE, there are many SUSE employees that work with openSUSE. Do you think that when everything becomes a new Linux distro, managed by the new foundation, will SUSE eventually decrease the investment? I mean, in a long time frame, can we start to loose the support of such big company?
To put it bluntly, it wouldn't be the first time that SUSE has done something like that to openSUSE. This project has gone through a period in which SUSE barely invested anything into openSUSE and survived. I'm fairly confident we'd be okay if we had to weather another storm like that.
To put it nicer, SUSE currently builds all of their products based on the "Factory First" process which is publicly documented here as part of SUSEs OpenChain certification: https://opensource.suse.com/suse-open-source-policy https://www.suse.com/c/news/suse-secures-openchain-certification-meeting-the... Whatever we call the openSUSE Project and/or it's Foundation, I do not think this is liable to change, and in fact I think it's highly likely that the Foundations could codify some aspects of that relationship into it's charter. And (unlike the name/trademarks) I see no controversy in that - SUSE and openSUSE collectively deciding to formalise it's working relationship even while it may be diverging it's trademarks could be seen as a win-win to both organisations. Speculatively speaking of course.. Regards, Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org