On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 11:09 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
I guess I see this as the name of the group of people. The name of those who want an identity. I semi agree with you on putting the cart before the horse. But to be able to change copywrite, trademark, branding we need something to replace it. Hence the name. I really see this name as what the group of interested people will be. I have had a few email stating that a proper name for the inititive should be choosen. So this, is my way of creating an identity that those of us that support this inititive will be called. The product that comes from this will then be branded with the name.
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This is where I'm having some confusion, and perhaps you can explain it in a bit more detail for me and others who are unclear as well. First of all, the feeling I got from the name voting was that you were seeing to name a product not identifying a group. So I think you need to make that clearer to people. Second of all, what I'm confused on is the concern for trademark issues and what the real intent of this 'product' is. You've referred to SLES or openSLES, and I see names proposed that are derived from openSUSE. Which are you really basing off of? There have been a number of us in the past few months who have talked about creating an openSUSE Server edition, much like we have GNOME and KDE LiveCD versions. What would differentiate your proposed product from something that is simply customized for a version type like -server? I just feel like when we go the route of a new name/entity then it gives the appearance of forking when I think we could harness the power of community more if we just simply added a new product to the openSUSE Project. People wouldn't wonder if they're favoring one or the other. As for long term support. I think that's a great idea. But again, if we don't have an actual product before us, how can we really truly define how we are able to provide long-term support? What are the issues involved in LTS? What is the infrastructure that has to be implemented to guarantee such LTS? I'm not saying I'm opposed to this. Just that this seems to leave more questions than answers. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member www.bryen.com (Personal Blog) www.planet-a11y.net (Feed aggregator of the Accessibility Community) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org