Pascal Bleser wrote: > [...] > @Thomas H.: don't forget that we as a community are a very valuable > asset for Novell, we're not less important from a strategic point of > view than their developers (I mean if we were, they wouldn't have pushed > openSUSE in the first place, wouldn't they).
Yes, sure. I mean otherwise it would not have made any sense for Novell to create an openSUSE project in the first place, and that's what I have mentioned before. It's part of their strategy. > Don't put us down as just > being an annoyance for the developers. While we (as a community) are > having a benefit from a much more direct communication and, hopefully, > more and more collaboration between the people working on SUSE Linux, > the opposite is very true as well. That's the whole point in the first > place, it's a "win-win" situation. Well, that's the ideal situation, right? I might have a more pragmatic point of view based on my daily experiences and I think that this is not (yet?) a realistic situation. It does not mean putting anybody down or something like that, it just means from my point of view avoiding to raise the expectations to a level that can never be reached. You were asking why the latest GNOME packages are not online on one of SUSE's FTP servers. Well, I think you got some answers now: people at Novell/SUSE seem to work on the SLED and SLES products and this has just a higher priority than other things, e.g. creating the latest GNOME packages and putting them into the supplementary tree (I got, of course, your point; this does not explain why the latest KDE packages are online). I think that perfectly supports all of what I have said before ;-) Please don't misunderstand me, I am not arguing against the openSUSE project, the community, the developers, etc. - I just try to explain why we have such a situation at the moment. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
