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Novell sold to AttachmateNovell sold to AttachmatePosted Nov 22, 2010 15:32 UTC (Mon) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631)Parent article: Novell sold to Attachmate
meego is using OBS from Novell, what will happen to OpenSUSE then?
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Novell sold to Attachmate Posted Nov 22, 2010 16:07 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
That is the big question. For now, nothing will happen of course, but in time, the question is what plans Attachmate has for SUSE and how that will influence openSUSE.
Note that to some degree openSUSE is separate from Novell - it is a community and the people there-in make their own choices. But as with Fedora and Ubuntu, most of the openSUSE infrastructure depends on the corporate sponsor which also owns the brand and employs many people working within the community. Of course the openSUSE foundation which is being discussed by the openSUSE Board and Novell will decrease that dependency greatly but it is still Work In Progress.
Anyway, anything we say now is pure speculation, so let's hold our horses and see what the plans are. Meanwhile, openSUSE just soldiers on, don't worry about that :D
Novell sold to Attachmate Posted Nov 22, 2010 22:53 UTC (Mon) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
AIUI the OBS software is GPLed, so the worst case scenario would seem to be that someone involved in Meego would have to find the hardware to run their own OBS instance, which doesn't sound too difficult.
Novell sold to Attachmate Posted Nov 23, 2010 16:22 UTC (Tue) by aj (subscriber, #39001) [Link]
Meego is already using their own OBS instances on their own hardware in their data centre.
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