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A message from the OpenSUSE Board regarding Free Software Foundation
- posguy 6y agoLooks like SUSE controls 2 of the board seats directly, and 2 to 3 seats are indirectly controlled by SUSE. Its interesting to watch how these organizations behave, I had the displeasure of watching a colleague interview with SUSE a few weeks ago. Microsoft Teams was all they were willing to meet on (Jitsi and other alternatives were nixed), and the technical interview consisted of solely FizzBuzz questions.
- type0 6y agoOne good youtube channel that covers commercial open source is https://www.youtube.com/c/TFiRio/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/TFiRio/videos if you watch it you'll realize that open source is merely goodwill for a lot of companies and how open to closed source they are; commercial entities can not actually care about FOSS itself but they care about their image.
- type0 6y agoIt is interesting to compare it to openSUSE's cousin distro Fedora and how they reacted https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-council-statement-on-richard-stallman-rejoining-fsf-board/ https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-council-statement-on-richa...