On 2011-04-24 Martin wrote:
Lørdag den 23. april 2011 19:41:40 skrev Jim Henderson:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:34:36 +0200, Kim Leyendecker wrote:
By the way, openSUSE is more an upstream project. With the start of SUSE Studio we (and Novell) allowed the vast majority to easy clone openSUSE´s and Novell´s techonology. Remember: I came to the openSUSE project as I create my own openSUSE-clone and felt like " I have to give back something as a "thank you"".
That's an interesting point, Kim. Thinking back on the strategy discussions, one of the proposed strategies was that openSUSE become a base for derivatives.
But it was not a popular proposal by any means.
Who wants to contribute to a piece of junk that is only intended to be diamond in the rough for others to polish and take advantage of.
Hmmm, yes, that's why Debian is so insignificant ;-) As others have said, be a bit more openminded. openSLX wants to contribute, actually, they do by paying a couple of active community members. So they put in work. No-one has the right to slam that imho.
And the whole idea builds on the assumption that derivative makers will contribute back - which is highly doubtful. And we're already seing that. Derivative makers are making a lot of effort to differentiate from openSUSE, rather than help making openSUSE better.