On 10/9/07, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 13:56:33 Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
So far, I'd say the community got its fair share. openSUSE as a community project would not exist if it hadn't been for Novell management to allocate the funds for constantly ongoing (!) involvement.
That is so true.
When I joined SUSE, after two days, I learned about this project to open the complete distribution. It was driven by very few people, with lot of energy. At the begining, not having more resources it was just a wiki. But the wiki and this wonderful people did more noise than Metallica's concerts.
Today, we are further than that. This dream has grown like a monster. Today openSUSE has a name in the organization chart and the project is so big, noisy and cool. Things like the build service are _unique_, and none of these things would have been possible without Novell.
Duncan Well,
This is a fair explanation about Linux and it's adoption in Novell. I'm an OpenSUSE big fans, and SUSE Novell take over issue (and, off course about Microsoft-Novell issue) always asked by another people if I tried to spread out or talk about OpenSUSE . I write down some good point from Stefan and Duncan. As described by Clayton, "Everyone only ever hears or sees what shows up in the media... a media that seems to delight in pouncing on any tidbit and blowing it all out of proportion." I absolutely agree with his reply. I never thinking before that SUSE Novell Takeover make such big changes to Linux adoption in Novell, not only from commercial side of its takeover. Thanks for sharing your opinion, Stefan... Regards, Vavai http://www.vavai.com/blog/index.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org