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?

• Linux adoption
• SUSE adoption
• SUSE awareness

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

• People, Hardware, other Infrastructure, Legal Costs, direct Expenses, …

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