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Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads?

Just when I thought that openSUSE was free from stupid corporate decisions, their main sponsor, SUSE S.A., came with a strange request: openSUSE should “stop using the SUSE brand”! WTF is that shit?! (H/T to Linuxiac.) 1. Lately, animosity arose around an “Open Letter to the openSUSE Board, Project and Community (Final)”! From the mailing...

I’m afraid that this guy, who is on openSUSE’s Board, has worked too many years in marketing and sales (he even developed “corporate communication tools”), so he just can’t explain actual ideas with straight words. Despite Fedora claiming to be a point-release distro, this is a lie: during the lifetime of a release, the kernel is constantly upgraded, and most GUI packages too (e.g. KDE), which makes it 80% rolling-release. Given the goals, skills, expertise and ability of both organisations, considering their natures both separately and interlinked, we have a self sustaining loop that sees our popularity ebb and flow at the whims of social media.

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