On 27 April 2011 23:33, Alberto Passalacqua <albert.passalacqua@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to add a comment. When a good and active part of the community who has been around for longer than openSLX asked for the creation of an open version of SLE, Novell/openSUSE was not so kind and supportive since it was seen as competition for SLE.
What changed in this? Why isn't this project pursued inside the openSUSE community instead than by a separate company which will actually represent competition, since it will offer commercial support?
I might be wrong, but I think this one is easy. We (the people of openSUSE) can only determine how we work within the project. If our primary sponsor strongly wants us to not do something , we might not do it. What another company does (here openSLX) is outside the jurisdiction of either Novell or openSUSE, especially if there is no infringement or illegality involved (which it seems there isn't). What any of us think and believe as individuals or as a project, might or might not be considered important by openSLX, and is certainly not binding to them. It appears that the openSUSE project has no official stance for or against Balsam, and I personally feel it shouldn't have one either, so there really isn't much we can do about it. Another company, another product. Apparently end of story. Let us worry about the openSUSE project. Let openSLX worry about Balsam.
This does not make too much sense at a first sight, but we are open to explanations :-)
Regards, AP
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