On 4/14/20 6:20 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Thu 2020-04-09, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
Leap did become "the better SLE" overtime, so we should have seen this coming a mile away, but I do not know how to feel about SLE basically using all of that work that the community did to achieve this.
I feel good about it.
The way I see openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise engage is an ongoing cooperation (both ways), a dance, sometimes closer, sometimes a bit more independently. Think rumba or salsa more than waltz. :-)
In fact, it doesn't just go "both ways", but really "many connected and intertwined ways" - supporting, challenging, pulling together.
And it's not two distinct groups of, say, developers, "the community" vs "the SUSE people". It's much more nuanced and intertwined than that (which, to be clear, you never indicated otherwise).
And nurturing, supporting, and growing these numerous pathways and clusters, that's a key part of our work
As an aside, Jump is an awful name, since it's a way too common of a word in the English language to build any reasonable branding around it.
Isn't Jump more like $JUMP, its actual name to be determined?
Gerald
$0.02: if the 'coming closer' ends up with less flexibility than currently available in/with use of opensuse, then it will simply be LESS likely that there will be more migration (aka $revenue) -- immediate or eventual -- to commercially supported SLE. NOT because it's not a simpler/easier migration from the new $JUMP release to SLE, but because there will simply be less use of opensuse. that's imo & 'here'. clearly, not the same for every enterprise. and yes, 'flexibility' is the fuzzy concept. as far as naming, if "The focus of its development is creating usable open-source tools for software developers and system administrators, while providing a user-friendly desktop and feature-rich server environment." continues to be true ... it matters not one whit. whatever TheName(tm) ends up being, explain what the different distros are on the webpage. done. *suse is not targeted to clueless brandname-adopters to begin with, and i'm hard-pressed to believe that any (in)significant numbers were lost due to 'Leap' or 'Tumbleweed' "sub-names" springing forth. and any enterprise _deployer_ that chooses the product based simply on name should be ... re-distributed quickly. personally, i don't care if it's called "openSUSE Bob 99.1"; what it _is_ is what matters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org