On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:07 +0200, DenverD wrote:
Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 16.09.2010 10:35, DenverD wrote:
but, it _seems_ to me that there has been a sharp drop off of Novell employees contributing/posting to the mail lists/forums since the NYPost scoop..
LOL, oh please...
I would hardly consider the time period between the Post's scoop and now as indicative of a dropoff by anyone, Novell employee or anyone. That's just too short of a period to reflect anything meaningful. And even if an agreement to sell is indeed going to happen 4 weeks from now, there is still a long period ahead of us for regulatory review of the buyout. We won't see any major changes in the very near future, for sure.
i wonder what happens if (as has happened too often in recent weeks) the forum (or mail lists/irc/wiki/etc) machines/nets need TLC to return to work...
Then the people who care for that will take care of that. Like always.
I agree with Henne's statement here. People invested personally in the Project are invested personally because they care. And if they care more or less after such a sale occurs, we'll deal with it at that time. No use getting paranoid and starting a witch hunt to figure out who is going to stay and who is going to leave before it happens.
just thinking out loud: do 'we' need to make some backup plans _before_ the communications networks go down and _then_ learn our corporate sponsor has lost interest in 'we' and has decided to save those man hours for more profitable endeavors ??
Would you stop spreading this FUD? Do you really think that we are that spineless? A lot of your contributions make me wonder if you would not be better of in some other project where you feel comfortable to take off your tinfoil hat. Have you considered that? :)
I give you my word that openSUSE will not drop off the face of the earth. No matter what the future brings.
believe it or not, i'm not worried about anything dropping off the face of the earth so much as how we will reconstitute capability *if* the mail lists/wiki/fora and etc were to suddenly be unsupported (with, electricity...say)..
if you are sure everything is gonna be smooth, then great..
its just in my former lives it was always best to plan for the worst, and hope for the best..
my experience is if you plan for the best, it is difficult to re-plan in the dark.
ymmv, tinfoil or not.
DenverD
I think Denver asks a fair question, though perhaps could have been worded more clearly. It is fair to ask ourselves as a community... "What could this mean for us and how does this impact us?" However, its a hard question to answer because we truly don't know the details. As far as I can tell, even inside SUSE, most people at Novell don't know anything more than what the rest of us know from that NY Post scoop. We have no idea who this buyer is and how this buyer will recognize openSUSE as a valuable commodity that benefits the SLE enterprise products. Regardless of a buyout or not, it is always good for the Community to look at itself and ask itself if it is on good solid sure ground. Such a question about the future of the Project and where we are should be asked regardless of Novell's activities and that's the attitude we need to focus on. Truth be told, the stronger we make ourselves as an important "upstream" project of the SLE family, the more Novell, or its successor, or anyone, will take notice of us and recognize that we're here to stay and we do something very important here. So, keep your heads focused on the prize -- openSUSE Project, and don't let the activities of our partners deter from what we are doing. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org