Am 22.04.2011 14:21, schrieb Markus Slopianka:
Dude, it's called competitive market. Business is not a charity. Novell chose to bet a large part of its business on GPL software and it's absolutely legally as well as morally OK for a competitor to take the sources, repackage them, and sell services cheaper.
Ironically, what you condemn is also done by Novell: Novell also sells support services for RHEL in a move "to hurt Red Hat by taking revenue from Red Hat".
I agree with you 100% but Pascal mean it as an answer of my qustion: Will we support Balsam? And from his point of view, we won´t because it hurts Novell´s business. Normaly, it´s not my problem when a company´s business gets hurt, but in this case, the company is our main sponsor and the employer of some openSUSE-developers (well, some? A lot...) So, I´m interested in Novell getting successfully because this is the only way to keep them sponsoring us. Your right. It´s Business, not charity. And do you know what happens when they feel that SUSE/openSUSE doesn´t work for Novell´s business? Yeah, right, the will sell it or just say: Okay fiends, we had a great time together, but Novell have to make money. Don´t be angry with us... but openSUSE is history! So, his arguments are from the openSUSE-side totaly accepted. I´m not the only one who wants an "openSLES" but the only reason why I not try to create one is the fact, that it would hurt Novell´s and SUSE´s business. By the way: Novell offers support for RHEL? WTF?! -- 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