Hi, 2011/4/27 Koushik Kumar Nundy <kknundy@gmail.com>:
And it seems largely at the expenses of the openSUSE project, which does most of the job without getting anything back. Someone claims openSLX contributes to openSUSE, but how? Splitting the community with the creation of their support site and redirecting users there?
Whatever the intentions of openSLX,
I am not saying they cannot do what they are doing. I am saying that is quite a stretch to claim that they are significantly contributing to openSUSE, at least in my pocket (and not only mine from what I hear).
Taking advantage of two projects from Novell without benefits for our community?
AFAIK, openSUSE is not a Novell product. SUSE Studio is, and if I understand correctly, it's very purpose is to make creating openSUSE based distrolets, so I see no "exploitation" or "taking advantage" here.
openSUSE has always been a project largely developed by Novell employees. We can try to hide this, but it is Novell / SUSE that has been constantly keeping the project going. Many do not like to admit this, but it is they simple truth. It is "taking advantage" when there is nothing coming back. Always in my pocket :-)
Not having a position on that does not seem a good idea to me, especially when the position was very clear when the internal community to the openSUSE project tried to do something similar.
If Balsam, or anyone else, is a rebranded openSUSE clone, the only way we can stop contributing to them is if we stop contributing to openSUSE. Hardly a happy option. If anyone is an SLE clone, we, the openSUSE project, can do nothing about it, simply because it is not our product.
I was clearly not suggesting anybody to stop contributing to openSUSE. However Novell/SUSE wasted an opportunity of managing such clone inside the community, under its control, which would have pleased who actually has been contributing in various ways for years. And now it is totally powerless with respect to a clone not under its control.
It frankly seems that community members have to pay a price others do not have to pay, and it comes natural to ask what is the advantage of contributing to a project that works this way.
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