Novell Cool Blogs: Ubuntu’s Open Week–and openSUSE
“Mark, let me reiterate that the openSUSE community and the
Ubuntu communities share the same goals. We might put different
emphasis on some of them, so let me speak just about one where I
see a different focus.“For us at SUSE it was always important–and still is–to not
only have a great distribution but to work together with the
community to bring open source and Linux forward for the benefit of
all…”
[opensuse]: Invitation to OpenSUSE Developers [Response]
“Novell leadership in their contract with Microsoft is hugely
disrespectful of the contributions of thousands of GPL programmers
and contributors to SuSE, and I know that many are looking for a
new place to get involved that is not subject to the same arbitrary
executive intervention. Ubuntu is one option, as are Gentoo, Debian
and other communities. Please accept this mail in that spirit.“Are you seriously saying you have no arbitrary executive power
over Ubuntu? You could seriously damage the project at least in the
near term by withdrawing your monetary support…”