On 02/07/2016 02:15 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 7 February 2016 at 22:58, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
I'd be happy to establish and run a "Friends of openSUSE Verein" here in Switzerland, but as long as there is no openSUSE entity to receive the sponsoring, it would be pointless.
Other opensource organisations could be supported obviously - KDE eV, Apache Foundation etc.
And what would that achieve? KDE eV, GNOME Foundation, etc, do not hire developers.
And that's precisely the problem, as you pointed out in your longer posting up-thread. There are already ways to contribute to KDE complete with paypal button, and I've done so at least once a year. The Opensuse site accepts code and hardware. And believe me they wouldn't want the hardware I cast off. But no way to contribute to Opensuse for paying developers, or maintainers to fix and maintain older stuff, or even tackle bug reports. Opensuse has no "visible means of support" which means its existence is probably subject to the whim of the ownership of Suse, which have seemed progressively less and less likely to be interested with each change of hands. Opensuse has historically been a testbed for SLES/SLED, but now, with Leap, it seems less so, and more like a Remora, hitching a ride on a shark, and as such dead-weight as viewed by Suse ownership, and the current ownership of Suse has proven themselves a pretty mercenary bunch over the last 20 years that I have had dealings with them. I suspect if the comptroller of Microfocus catches a cold, Opensuse could find itself a fatality. Side Issue: Why does no one produce a derivative distro based on Opensuse? Yet Arch, arguably a much smaller organization, has dozens of derivatives, some of them rather impressive (Manjaro). Is Opensuse just so good that there is no room for improvement? Does someone actively work to prevent this? -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org