On Friday 24 February 2006 12:09, houghi wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:58:51AM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
Read above comment on Novell employees being part of the community.
Thanks for clearifying this. The way the OP wrote it, it sounded as Novell is obliged or that the users can demand something from Novell to do about the website.
I don't think we can demand anything. We can politely ask and if they help, this would be very nice of them to do so.
Somebody else wrote a sort while a go a real good explanation about Novell being a part of the (kernel-)comunity. I just can't find it.
houghi
Thats how I took it too (from the OP) - though considering the efforts of Andreas, Sonja, Henne, etc, etc - how could we not consider them an important part of the community? Not only do they contribute as their job demands, but, imho, they all have gone above and beyond is support of OpenSUSE as a community effort. Should Novell have assistance available? Sure, but I believe by providing the framework, they have done just that. They have also worked with vendors to assure compatibility, apply pressure on software companies to make Linux an easier transition, and now have even started a podcast. I'd say they damn well do plenty, and I appreciate that :) Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin