On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 22:13 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
Like everyone else in the industry Novell has it's own mission and vision, and supporting various platforms (including Windows) is part of that. Also not every solution equally makes sense on every platform, technically or commercially. It's not as if Novell hadn't invested a lot, and I mean a lot, of money into Linux so far. ;-)
And for a mature openSUSE project, Novell's intentions actually should not matter. This is like a lot of other projects where it's the contribution that counts, and not the reasons (business, philantropy,... ) in the end.
This is important to point out, indeed. We may certainly be tempted to say "What more can Novell do for us?" as part of our strategy, and yes, Novell is an important contributor to openSUSE. But as we continue to offer up our thoughts here on this thread, its also important to talk about what WE as a community can do strategically for our project. The Strategy team's focus has not been about Novell, but about the Project as a whole, which includes ALL of us. Please, everyone, do continue to offer up your great opinions which we will include in our discussions next weekend, but do also think about what we need to do as a community, and not just rely on Novell as the answer to everything. Thanks, 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