On 2018-02-21, Liam Proven
I thought that openSUSE was the free-of-charge version of SUSE. And that's it.
It isn't. It is *substantially* more complicated and as far as I can tell, neither SUSE nor openSUSE spells this out explicitly.
I think that it should. I think that it _needs_ to.
At the moment I believe these threads are still quite off-topic (and I'm wondering whether having these sorts of meta-discussions about education of SUSE employees on the public os-factory mailing list is appropriate), but I just wanted to point this out: The reason I believe this isn't explicitly spelled out anywhere is mostly the history of the project and how much it has evolved. openSUSE started as a Novell project, and the original plan for the project changed significantly over time to reach where we are today (and it is still evolving with the introduction of things like the Factory-First policy and so on). It's not written down because things have been changing so much that if anything had been written down, it would be misleading today -- the project has changed so much since its origins, both in scope and spirit. However, I do think that we should have a living document for folks who are not aware of the dynamics between SUSE and openSUSE (this would be especially important for new SUSE employees to read) to learn what the current dynamic is between the two entities. Because it is very important to make clear that we are all on equal footing as part of the same community, irrespective of who pays your salary. -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH https://www.cyphar.com/