Hi, Wouldn't it be wise to consider both the best and the worst scenario that might come out of this aquisition? Best case scenario, nothing changes. Worst case scenario, SUSE turns back on openSUSE financially and in terms of contributions, because *financial incentive of some sort*
This morning we all learned the news that the openSUSE projects main sponsor, SUSE, currently owned by MicroFocus, intends to be acquired by EQT Partners in Sweden.
Currently you Richard are speaking of openSUSE as legaly and financially independent entity, which it isn't. We wouldn't need this reassurance if this was the case.
This will be the third acquisition of SUSE since the creation of openSUSE, the second under the leadership of Nils and his team. Just as happened in that case, SUSE will be making no changes in its relationship between the company and the openSUSE Project.
Considering how dependent openSUSE is on SUSE, every single changing hands will worry both users and developers. That happened with every single aquisition before. Maybe by this point people start to care less about the whole thing, but here I am worried.
SUSE remains committed to supporting the openSUSE community, who play a key role in helping SUSEs success, which is expected to continue under their new partnership with EQT.
So what are the options to ensure stable development if SUSE turns its back to us? Well, idea in 2010/2011 was to create openSUSE Foundation (which at that point was seemingly just a move to calm down people that wanted to fork openSUSE away from Novell's openSUSE). https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Foundation I doubt currently SUSE would oppose such a move, considering good relations, but it's always good to have ensurance in case something doesn't go right in the future.
If anyone has any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to discuss them on this list or email me directly.
So maybe it's time again to open up discussion about Foundation, but this time have it result in something more substancial than before. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org