Uwe,
Not wanting to sound rude or anything, but you are slightly mistaken. The Guiding Principles apply to the *whole* of the openSUSE Project, not just the distro.
This is one reason why it is important to get acceptance and understanding.
Regards,
Andy
-- Sent from a Nokia E71 Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Buckesfeld Sent: 19/05/2009 17:39:27 Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Why many people don't support Guiding Principles ?
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 17:11:12 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Which part of the Guiding principles is so bad that it can't be accepted (granted, for most people most things should just be considered as 'normal').
As I said, most of the things written go without saying (Be nice to others, help others, spread the word, yaddayadda...)
It's the tone. It sounds all oh so important. I have token oaths before, most of which deal with protecting freedom, courage, justice. Important stuff. But this here is just a freaking operating system. Put the guiding principles somewhere, no problem, but give me a chance to ignore them <G>
Uwe
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:48:29 Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Not wanting to sound rude or anything, but you are slightly mistaken. The Guiding Principles apply to the whole of the openSUSE Project, not just the distro.
Care to elaborate? http://en.opensuse.org/Project_Overview I still don't see more than an operating system. I'm fine with it. I like operating systems. But they are what they are: Software making a computer usable. Not more.
Uwe
* Uwe Buckesfeld u.buckesfeld@gmx.de [05-19-09 13:27]:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:48:29 Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Not wanting to sound rude or anything, but you are slightly mistaken. The Guiding Principles apply to the whole of the openSUSE Project, not just the distro.
Care to elaborate? http://en.opensuse.org/Project_Overview I still don't see more than an operating system. I'm fine with it. I like operating systems. But they are what they are: Software making a computer usable. Not more.
Pardon me for butting in, but my take is that the "Guiding Principles" are a description of the aims, efforts and mind-set of the "community" which espouses openSUSE, not the operating system itself. It is an effort to describe and guide a relationship between interested parties whos "product" is the operating system, openSUSE.
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