On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 23:18 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
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It is obvious that OpenSuse ignores the vast majority of problem reports. There are great programmers working for them that have to concentrate on their tasks given by the hierarchy. The moment you publicly question the Novell hierarchy you are told to shut up.
Oh come on... Conspiracy theorists running amuck here. I give the Novell developers full credit for their work. They work hard, and the reason why not every detail that you expect to be dealt with is not met is because Novell also has a limited amount of resources. And in the case of openSuse, it is a mix of Novell developers and outside contributing developers (as in open source), so if you have such disdain for the developers, why not extend it to all of the outside developers who contribute as well? That entire logic is flawed. Novell does not have the luxury of a 50,000-employee company like Microsoft. Balancing priorities is ALWAYS a difficult task and one that inevitably someone loses. Guess in this case, that was you. Your statement is an insult to developers at Novell.
And for good reasons, Novell is evidently even more in bed with Microsoft then other financiers of Linux distributions.
Ugh, I'm so tired of hearing this one. It's been so refuted time and time again, I'm not even going to bother with responding to this one.
if and when the financiers decide it is in their own interest. Unless people start speaking up together. But most prefer swallowing trinkets and compete in their subservience.
They actually do welcome your comments. Heck, look at where you are posting this very email??? There are Novellians looking in on this list and taking note of what people say. But if you assume everything happens overnight, think again. To use Microsoft as an example, hmmm... they have 50,000 employees and yet take forever in between OS version releases (years not months) 10.3 was released a couple months ago. 11.0 is about to be released around this springtime.
Thanks for your efforts trying to make a difference, Richard, however please don't let curtains and staged competition fool you.
We don't "try" to make a difference. We ARE making a difference, by participating, by testing out, by reporting, by getting involved in opensuse teams, etc. I participate with the opensuse gnome team. What are you doing?
Kind regards Philippe -- ---Bryen---
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