Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 17:21:37 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Sven Burmeister wrote:
I think you missed the point. I was talking about perception of decisions and not how they actually come about. I may repeat myself: "If people inside and outside the community do not see openSUSE and SLE as mostly unrelated, then this question is surely not a distraction but crucial to understand how decisions regarding any Novell product or investment are perceived by others and hence their impact on the discussions lead in the community."
Yes, and perception is not going to change and match reality as long as SUSE Linux Enterprise is being dragged onto the scene. :-)
Ok, so you think perception is different to what Novell claims. That's a first step, i.e. to acknowledge that there is a gap.
(Hence I would claim that this question and asking about SUSE Linux Enterprise in the context of the openSUSE desktop discussion _are_ a distraction.)
Nope, just not ignoring reality. The current perception is reality just not necessarily the one Novell likes and you want to change that by ignoring it. I agree that Novell would like to have those products seen as independent, yet to hush up the current state is not going to change anything but creating a mindset within Novell which does not necessarily correspond with how Novell is seen from the outside which in turn can be quite dangerous when it comes to decision making based on that mindset. In fact, trying to change perception by not talking about it will, as in politics, always end in a huge blow, i.e. the point where reality hits phantasy. But I take your point, according to you, if one does not mention SLE within the opensuse community the outside will follow that lead and think that they are separate as well. I guess only time will tell whether that works. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org