Am 20.04.2011 20:51, schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
Am 20.04.2011 20:15, schrieb Pascal Bleser:
On 2011-04-20 19:16:43 (+0200), Kim Leyendecker<kimleyendecker@hotmail.de> wrote: [...]
The two Balsam products would realize this missed "feature". Are we support these guys at open-SLX who are creating this distro? First thing I have to say. I liked (and still like) the idea that openSUSE still can be ordered as a product so in general I found it a good thing that open-slx took over. But
1) never announced on any of the opensuse mailing-lists or forums or whatever or, if so, very well hidden
2) none of us non-openslx-employees-opensuse-community-members have ever heard of it until very recently, by chance I don't like the way how open-slx does community work. Actually I'm wondering if they fear to interact with the community or they consider it useless. (There even is a community manager but I'm not sure which community is managed here).
3) there has not been any request for permission to use the openSUSE trademarks for this derivative work According to http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16913/opensuse-box-wird-zu-balsam-professiona... (german language) the reason for renaming the product was partly because of the openSUSE trademark.
4) its description says it adds proprietary packages and drivers to openSUSE -- I wonder which and if it's nVidia or ATI/AMD or madwifi drivers, it would infringe on the kernel license (GPL), reason for which Novell is not including it in the distribution nor its repositories, nor allowing it to be hosted on any server on Novell's infrastructure That might be true and I'm not commenting more on legal stuff.
5) given the name "Balsam" and it's German meaning ("putting balsam on someone's heart" = "soften the pain"), and the lack of communication (to say the least), as well as one infamous initiative open-slx took recently with community.open-slx.de, it does make me wonder whether they just believe that we suck and that they have to solve everything on their own without involving us at all Exactly. That's what I tried to say above.
Wolfgang Well, thanks for answering to both of you.
So, there isn´t any collaboration on this products between openSUSE/Novell and open-slx as I understood it right. I think I have to ask at open-slx and Novell as well to beeing sure, because I actually wanted to blog about it and creating an article for news.o.o. Well, I don´t know who is not working together with us or not, and I think we shouldn´t discuss it here on the list. So, thanks for you answers guys. ---------------------------------------------- A side note for the open-slx readers, if you felt touched: Please, if you want to work together with openSUSE let us know. We have a great community manager and a great programm manager who do great work for people who starting contribute to the community. Your product looks really interesting and "Balsam Enterprise" is a big chance for SLE to take over the market leadership (Look at Red Hat. RHEL is so successfull because there two clones and they allow you to test RHEL till whenever you want... A free SLE-clone would make SLE more open and of course, more successfully, believe me.) kind regards -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org