It's not clear to me who is instigating this seperation, and that changes who or what should be considered reasonable.
Is it openSUSE wanting to own themselves? Or is it SUSE wanting to divest themselves of their openSUSE project?
Is it even a divorce at all or just a legal technicality or formality thing?
In either case, as a former but 20 year user at work, as in, I was cto and decided that all our machines ran openSUSE, I was always under the impression that openSUSE was the upstream source for SUSE. I got this impression because I maintained a few packages myself even though I didn't work for SUSE. They get maintained in various repos in OBS (opensuse build service), and get forked from there into repos for the various distros. Kind of like big project githubs pulling from and tracking personal or smaller project githubs.
Anyway, if openSUSE is the upstream source for SUSE, then what does it mean to seperate them? Will SUSE still track not-open-SUSE to get the bulk of it's own product? Which remember they sell? If so will SUSE continue to support them with for example the infra to run OBS? And if all of that then what is the big problem with the name?
Or will the upstream/downstream direction reverse? That seems unlikely. I would work on packages for free in opensuse, I would never do that in sles. I can't be the only one.
Or will they just be 2 unrelated distros? Would not-open-suse still be a free work-alike of suse? If not, then what would it's purpose even be if not specifically to be a free version of suse?
Is it just a legal technicality or formality thing with the name but they both plan to stay in essentially the same relationship, or is SUSE really looking to shed openSUSE, or is openSUSE looking to diverge and become it's own thing that isn't just a version of SUSE? Not merely under it's own governance, but start to differ from SUSE?
Is it openSUSE wanting to own themselves? Or is it SUSE wanting to divest themselves of their openSUSE project?
Is it even a divorce at all or just a legal technicality or formality thing?
In either case, as a former but 20 year user at work, as in, I was cto and decided that all our machines ran openSUSE, I was always under the impression that openSUSE was the upstream source for SUSE. I got this impression because I maintained a few packages myself even though I didn't work for SUSE. They get maintained in various repos in OBS (opensuse build service), and get forked from there into repos for the various distros. Kind of like big project githubs pulling from and tracking personal or smaller project githubs.
Anyway, if openSUSE is the upstream source for SUSE, then what does it mean to seperate them? Will SUSE still track not-open-SUSE to get the bulk of it's own product? Which remember they sell? If so will SUSE continue to support them with for example the infra to run OBS? And if all of that then what is the big problem with the name?
Or will the upstream/downstream direction reverse? That seems unlikely. I would work on packages for free in opensuse, I would never do that in sles. I can't be the only one.
Or will they just be 2 unrelated distros? Would not-open-suse still be a free work-alike of suse? If not, then what would it's purpose even be if not specifically to be a free version of suse?
Is it just a legal technicality or formality thing with the name but they both plan to stay in essentially the same relationship, or is SUSE really looking to shed openSUSE, or is openSUSE looking to diverge and become it's own thing that isn't just a version of SUSE? Not merely under it's own governance, but start to differ from SUSE?