-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 [Sent later] On 2010-06-09 22:42, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
2010/6/9 Trifle Menot <>:
Novell gave opensuse a bad reputation. A new corporate name may help change market perceptions. It seems likely that will happen soon.
Clearly we have different point of views. I think Novell made openSUSE possible, more open and accessible. Look at the facts for one minute instead than to the politics. Novell opened the whole SUSE, made YaST open source (it wasn't in SuSE), they offered the openSUSE buildservice to the community, opening it to all major distributions. They support, sometime alone, many open projects, and openSUSE has one of the best KDE and GNOME implementations of the Linux arena.
That's true.
The bad reputation is not that bad. It is often due to what people reads on certain press, but when they know the community and try the distribution, they often change their mind, even in comparison to other more popular distributions (read ubuntu). I see that happen quite often.
On the other hand, I have seen old time users, even contributors, go away to some other distro just because the support time went down from two years to 18 months. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkwQsZMACgkQja8UbcUWM1z7QgD/VQoXDqMkk5TJnmOkMn8MkRBj +8bn+lqEtnvOpS/W5tAA/1XWe2CkwU9amy0+PbNEK4d6I1RzFVGYjKIEmGJizHm2 =A+Me -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org