openSUSE & Novell - a unlike couple

DR. PFEIFER, Gerald Director Product Management

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There is no such thing as "The Community".

There is no such thing as "Novell employees" as opposed to "The Community".

Why openSUSE?

openSUSE is the base for SUSE Linux Enterprise

openSUSE is not a crash test facility (and never was meant to be)

Novell contributes a lot more to openSUSE than "just" the Boosters

The more Novell needs to direct efforts to baseline work …

… the less will land higher up the stack, e.g. in terms of innovation

Novell is very supportive of an openSUSE Foundation