Hi Stefan,
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2024 um 10:01 Uhr Von: "Stefan Seyfried" <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> An: project@lists.opensuse.org Betreff: Re: Rebranding of the Project
Am 11.07.24 um 14:43 schrieb Knurpht-openSUSE:
So... Do potential donors nowadays have a negative perception if a commercial company supports a project with a Libre license or a community? How hard is it to explain it's the opposite and how licensing works?
Right, it's like people who dislike RedHat are donating to Fedora. Or people who dislike Canonical donating to Ubuntu. In the time I was on the Board, several offers of sponsorship got lost because
Op donderdag 11 juli 2024 12:18:08 CEST schreef Lukáš Krejza: the potential sponsor DID NOT want to send it to SUSE. For their own reasons, but yes this happened.
But I am pretty sure that just rebranding will not help, because then they still would have to send the money to SUSE.
The Foundation has got an own banking account. The money can arrive openSUSE now. Therefore, this problem is solved. But that has to become more well known and there is the missing opportunity to spend more than 10 Pounds. -> Joke at the oSC: Somebody did 100 bank transactions with 10 Pounds directly afterwards.
The foundation setup will probably help, but this is not tied to a rebranding. A rebranding is independent of the foundation. And it does not make sense, so long as the collaboration with SUSE will exist. We will keep the problems "openSUSE is not SUSE" based on the partnership. Not only openSUSE has got a benefit of the SUSE employees in the community. I have got also the feeling, that SUSE would not be equal successfully without openSUSE. A rebranding would be required, if we want to achieve a "complete" split between SUSE and openSUSE. A rebranding does not help us.
Best regards, Sarah
-- Stefan Seyfried
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman