Hey all, I have been seeing a disturbing trend in the openSUSE Twitter[1] and Mastodon[2] accounts, where we are sending messages tearing down the CentOS Project[3][4][5][6].
As an openSUSE contributor who spends *a lot* of time trying to use and promote openSUSE sensibly, I was disheartened by the lack of professionalism and support to our fellow project trying to develop a contributor-oriented community like we have for openSUSE Leap. The worst part about it is that the attacks are a "stone and glass house" kind of affair. openSUSE Leap has roughly the same lifespan as CentOS Stream, and contributions to CentOS Stream effectively work the same way as contributions to openSUSE Leap does. If people start teasing apart what we actually *offer* compared to CentOS Stream, they will be disappointed to find that we're not that much different from them. And the truth is, I couldn't be happier! If anything, we should be supporting that project, and drawing parallels to openSUSE Leap as a *model* of how CentOS Stream can be done. We've successfully integrated the enterprise and the community together in a stable, reliable, rock-solid platform. When openSUSE made the change to openSUSE Leap, nobody from Red Hat or Fedora said bad things about us. In fact, they've been generally supportive of our efforts. I have personally had conversations with a number of folks at Red Hat talking about the model of excellence that is openSUSE Leap. And now, Red Hat is taking a "Leap" of faith with CentOS and RHEL, and we're tearing them down for trying to be more open? That's utterly hypocritical and I'm disgusted. As a member of the openSUSE community, I'm disappointed and saddened by how we're not trying to support each other. Our friends at Red Hat and Fedora have supported us, this is our turn to support them. That doesn't mean we can't take the opportunity to talk about openSUSE Leap. There is plenty to love about openSUSE Leap for folks everywhere. But tearing down CentOS to promote openSUSE Leap is not the right way. Regards, Neal [1]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE [2]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse [3]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1339648215713509377 [4]: https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/1339956419462918147 [5]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/105389999148802875 [6]: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/105390670556405421 -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem) _______________________________________________ openSUSE Marketing mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] List Netiquette: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette List Archives: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]
