Am 20.04.2011 20:15, schrieb Pascal Bleser:
On 2011-04-20 19:16:43 (+0200), Kim Leyendecker <kimleyendecker@hotmail.de> wrote: [...]
The two Balsam products would realize this missed "feature". Are we support these guys at open-SLX who are creating this distro?
First thing I have to say. I liked (and still like) the idea that openSUSE still can be ordered as a product so in general I found it a good thing that open-slx took over. But
1) never announced on any of the opensuse mailing-lists or forums or whatever or, if so, very well hidden
2) none of us non-openslx-employees-opensuse-community-members have ever heard of it until very recently, by chance
I don't like the way how open-slx does community work. Actually I'm wondering if they fear to interact with the community or they consider it useless. (There even is a community manager but I'm not sure which community is managed here).
3) there has not been any request for permission to use the openSUSE trademarks for this derivative work
According to http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16913/opensuse-box-wird-zu-balsam-professiona... (german language) the reason for renaming the product was partly because of the openSUSE trademark.
4) its description says it adds proprietary packages and drivers to openSUSE -- I wonder which and if it's nVidia or ATI/AMD or madwifi drivers, it would infringe on the kernel license (GPL), reason for which Novell is not including it in the distribution nor its repositories, nor allowing it to be hosted on any server on Novell's infrastructure
That might be true and I'm not commenting more on legal stuff.
5) given the name "Balsam" and it's German meaning ("putting balsam on someone's heart" = "soften the pain"), and the lack of communication (to say the least), as well as one infamous initiative open-slx took recently with community.open-slx.de, it does make me wonder whether they just believe that we suck and that they have to solve everything on their own without involving us at all
Exactly. That's what I tried to say above. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org