Onsdag 28 juni 2006 09:08 skrev jdd: > From http://reverendted.wordpress.com/ > > A colleague of mine and I just ordered 7,500 DVD's copies of > the 10.1 release of openSUSE. Novell does hand them out > freely, but mostly at events. We also make openSUSE freely > available for download from openSUSE.org. > > we definitively need to rethink the SUSE Linux versus > opensuse linux naming... > > (TED is a Provo SE)
I've pretty much given up - how can we explain the difference between SUSE Linux and openSUSE to people, when even top Novell marketing guys like Ted Haeger refuse to use the correct names? Is it a problem? I think so. - It's simply not correct. - It causes SUSE Linux questions to appear on the opensuse-malinglist, irc-channel etc.. - It results in people not knowing what the opensuse-project is about, since people think it's just a distro - and thus the message of the community built distro gets lost. - It feeds the confusion and numerous misconceptions: "opensuse is non-novell suse" "opensuse is the free (as in beer) version, that's different from the retail version" "opensuse is a non-oss version, that's different from the retail version that's filled with closed stuff" etc. Either we should just give in and call the distro OpenSUSE officially - or someone should tell Michael Meeks, Ted Haeger and more what the hell the correct name for the distro is, that they're promoting. At least Greg Mancusi-Ungaro seems to get it right.. Martin / cb400f --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
