On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:33 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 21/09/10 19:06, Brian K. White escribió:
Someone should really learn the value of planning ahead.
So you want us to "guess" ? let me sacrifice a goat and light a circle NOTE: Column C is the CPU time in percent. The time available is the number of CPU cores times 100. On the test system there is 200 available. of fire...
I think the speculation has the potential to be useful. The questions asked and opinions offered are, indeed, all guesswork. But what does arise from the speculations are questions like: Would the purchase even include openSUSE? openSUSE is indeed funded heavily by Novell in the form of workers. But that is not the same as saying it is owned by Novell. Should our question here be not so much who is buying openSUSE as who will continue to support openSUSE should the new owners of Novell fail to do so? The list members pondering the future could indeed begin to see how openSUSE could survive loss of funding/workers by Novell, should that come to pass. What are the other options for funding? For example, do Nokia/intel contribute financially for the use of OBS for Meego? Another question is: what tools used to maintain openSUSE are owned by Novell and not by openSUSE? Are openSUSE free to continue using those tools even if Novell exit the picture? I do not think the answer to either of these things is speculation, as it must surely be described in the openSUSE project charter. I think that even if Novell were not for sale and future support not decided, these are interesting questions.
Planning starts with pondering possibilities.
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reality backed by evidence is what is required to start planning, you can't plan with rumours and suppositions, that's the definition of guessing.
It is even harder to plan if you ignore the question. I do not think anyone is really expecting answers. We all are intelligent enough to get the fact that nothing is known at this time. But that does not mean that the questions do not exist. And they can surely be asked. It is only the answers that are missing. In asking the questions, you can begin to formulate dealing with possible answers so that when they do arrive, you might be just that little bit more prepared. Or not. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org