noniko wrote:
Hi,
Recently I have read about many post about Novell-MS collaboration in opensuse@opensuse.org ML (Though it is an ML for general support....).
I'd like to how openSUSE should think about this topic. I don't think it a weird question, because the "Microsoft/Novell Collaboration" news is at the top page of opensuse.org site.
I think a lot of the posts on this thread rather miss the point - once big business gets involved in an organisation, the *only* thing that's really important to them is the bottom line. Community spirit and F/OSS values count for nothing to the accountants. This wasn't too visible while SuSE were a smallish and essentially independent (?) German company, but it's been increasingly evident from the moment that they sold out to Novell. My very real fear is that now, unless the OpenSuSE community can put clear water between it and Novell, the developers, testers and other supporters will find other distributions to work with and OpenSuSE will wither. Retaining this support - and mine too, FWIW - is crucial. Statements from Andreas may not be enough, however well thought through. -- Richard. * SuSE / OpenSuSE user since 5.2, whenever that was * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org