On Monday 14 November 2005 10:47 am, Andre Truter wrote:
OK, I am confused here. How is Novell cutting out the community here?
To me it rather looks like they are pulling the community closer with OpenSUSE.
Did SuSE include the community in thier corporate desicions before Novell bought them?
This depends entirely on your viewpoint. Opening up OpenSuSE does nothing to improve SuSE if there is not enough staff programmers to actually fix the problems discovered by the community and/or to integrate the patches submitted. Second: (And more important), this approach has already been tried with disastrous effects by RedHat, and Fedora is an abomination compared to SuSE, their user base has tumbled as a result. The semi-closed betas that SuSE used to do ensured competant people were the first evaluators, and prevented the developers from being flooded by a bunch of newbie "bug reports". You can not simply discount the fact that SuSE has been the most solid and advanced Distro for year after year in your rush to the holy grail of "include the community". -- _____________________________________ John Andersen