* Gryffus [01-09-21 15:28]:

Long EN version: You, sir, do not have a place in "our" community. Your behaviour and proposed/advertised future steps may be viewed as an attempt to restrain openSUSE "spirit of freedom" and may lead to demotivating contributors and leaving to other distro, forking of openSUSE, ruining the ongoing "Closing The Leap Gap" effort and who knows what else. I won't be surprised if even SUSE would be hurted just by this thread. For myself i want to state that solely from your behaviour here on ML, i already know that i won't support and even respect any of your future proposals. I do not like people like you, you seem arrogant to me and i do not see such arrogant behaviour from people who are _twice_ as long in openSUSE community as you and _twice_ as old as you.

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On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:25 PM Gryffus wrote:

Od: marekstopka@gmail.com Odesláno: 9. ledna 2021 14:41 Komu: rbrown@suse.de Kopie: project@lists.opensuse.org; board@opensuse.org Předmět: Re: Why separate foundation?

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On 2021-01-09 14:17, Mark Stopka wrote:

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Considering I plan to on-board many new members based on at this time undisclosed value-proposition, you may even call it an hostile takeover attempt, since you seem to like these corporate terms so much. And I think the best way to on-board such new contributors is if my company sponsors openSUSE Foundation, which will sign MoU with the local university, as my company that has nothing to do with openSUSE at this point, it's called making the contributions tax-deductible.

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Yes, all will be disclosed in due time, as something has been disclosed in here, it takes time Richard to make sure NDAs are null and void at this point, legal departments take my requests very seriously. I will tell you all about the proposal of a strategic investor to buy part of SUSE from EQT as soon as that NDA is lifted, if such a thing is to take place.

Short, czech version: Vy, pane, jste debil.

Thanks, calling someone idiot is certainly a good way to start any conversation ;-)

Long EN version: You, sir, do not have a place in "our" community.

Who gave you the moral right to decide who have and don't have place in "our" community, until it is "your community"?

Your behaviour and proposed/advertised future steps may be viewed as an attempt to restrain openSUSE "spirit of freedom"

Implying that hiring student interns as maintainers is a bad thing, or that people who also get paid to work on openSUSE do not deserve to be members even if they fill all the criteria? In the spirit of freedom I can pay as many contributors as I wish for working on projects I wish them to work on, no?

and may lead to demotivating contributors and leaving to other distro, forking of openSUSE, ruining the ongoing "Closing The Leap Gap" effort and who knows what else.

Ruining the effort how?

For myself i want to state that solely from your behaviour here on ML, i already know that i won't support and even respect any of your future proposals.

Thanks for being open-minded.

I won't be surprised if even SUSE would be hurted just by this thread. I do not like people like you, you seem arrogant to me and i do not see such arrogant behaviour from people who are _twice_ as long in openSUSE community as you and _twice_ as old as you.

I doubt anyone here is twice as old as I am.

Maybe try again with a little more politeness, respect and _humility_?

Regards, Gfs (Lukáš Krejza)

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