Am Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010, 11:23:26 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
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On 2010-06-09 21:23, Martin Schlander wrote:
There has been some mention of the other sponsors, but open-slx wasn't mentioned. Personally I find what open-slx are doing extremely interesting - since they are actually trying to monetize openSUSE. Something Novell never wanted to do, since Novell is greatly (and mistakenly so) underestimating the relevance of the consumer market. Open-slx have been hiring some people, and hopefully they'll be succesful and grow more influential - and hopefully other companies will copy this model and try to monetize openSUSE too.
I wasn't aware of this, so I googled a bit and found the site. Unfortunately, it is in German only, so I don't understand a word.
They took over the production, marketing and selling of the boxed edition and in return want to improve documentation and work on other parts of the distribution/upstream projects. For me this looks like a sound project, Novell itself isn't interested in doing the 90 day support etc for a project they don't expect a direct revenue stream from. And for us this means this goes to people we know that care directly about openSUSE, free from any Novell control. Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org