On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:06:20 +0200, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 14:17:36 Karsten König wrote:
The entry states it's the base for SLE, that's it, well this obviously contradicts the wish for a totally independent community as it might create something that just won't sell as SLE ;-)
If we as openSUSE project want to make some different decisions which are the right decisions for openSUSE and not for SLE, so be it.
That politically correct policy statement is good marketing speak, but in practice, decisions will be dominated by devs who have a conflict of interest, namely their Novell salary. That's no different from Fedora or Ubuntu, so I'm not saying it's evil, but let's stop pretending, and admit that opensuse is more of a Novell marketing tool than a real community. People are not stupid, they can see that. What incentive does anyone have to volunteer their time for free, while Novell devs earn nice salaries and live the good life? Very little incentive, it seems to me. The project would have more appeal if the infrastructure were fully separated from the sponsors. Then the community could fork the project if bad things happen in the future. There is too much uncertainty surrounding Novell; a potentially dead project is not a good investment of my time. Until that changes, good volunteers will be hard to find. -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org