Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 09 September 2010 03:49:09 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Wednesday 11 August 2010 19:00:45 Charles Wight wrote:
[snip] Is OpenSUSE suffering some kind of corporate "identity crisis"? Good question, and imho, yes, to some extend it does. I think we do to a great extent. At first we had SuSE Linux made in Germany (very clear, crisp, well-defined product identity), then SUSE Linux by Novell, then openSUSE (not very open), then openSUSE (open and apparently community driven), now openSUSE (open and partially/actually community driven). What about people living in countries like, for instance, Cuba? They can't even report a bug because
On 2010-08-18 18:40, Per Jessen wrote: they can not log-into Bugzilla, requiring registering at Novell, which refuses because of the laws as USA, I guess...
I can understand why Novell has to do that, but do we (openSUSE) need to do that as well?
We are commenting on such a case just now, in the Spanish list. A Cuban wants to become an openSUSE ambassador, but can't. We have to admire the difficulties of all sorts he has for installing openSUSE (with our help, folks of the Spanish list). This denial of registration is one more.
Interesting issue. Yes, as long as the relationship between openSUSE and Novell is as it currently is, this is hard to solve. Another thing the foundation can help with!
personally, i have never understood the need for the open community to tie itself to Novell's iChain.. sure it _is_ convenient for the Novell employees and SLE_ owners who happen to already need Novell credentials to not have to be bothered with a completely separate system of access management (located in a place not encumbered with USA laws/politics).. i do not know: does Red Hat also market an access management application and tie the Fedora Community to it.. or, could the community not administer access totally independent of Novell? just questions, DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org