On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:27 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Bertolo wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 11:06 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > >> We will likely rename "it" for 10.2 anyway. > > > > I guess there should be a clear difference between Novell business products > > such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell-sponsored projects such as > > openSUSE. Have a look at Redhat. Their opensource project is named fedora. > > Redhat chose to split between Redhat and Fedora. > So what ? Just because Redhat did it that way, it doesn't mean that it's > a good idea ;) > > > So, if Novell want to keep the trademark "SUSE" for their products it would > > be > > wise to rename the open distribution to something completely different. > > I strongly disagree, to say the least. > > "SUSE" has been around for a long time, as a name (even if it was > "S.u.S.E." and "SuSE" in the past). > > You might be new to SUSE Linux, but the distribution has a very strong > history, especially in Germany, and renaming the distribution to > something else is totally *not* a good idea. > > New users might now be interested in SUSE Linux because it is part of > Novell. > But I can tell you for sure that a lot of people like and use SUSE Linux > because it is still produced by the highly skilled technical staff that > has been doing S.u.S.E. Linux and SuSE Linux in the past, with the same > focus on quality and polish. > > If you now call it "Novell Linux" or something else, totally > different... well... anything different from "SUSE" actually, it will > mean a lot more than just a change of name to many people. > Some might see this as "the last bit of S.u.S.E./SuSE going away" > (whether this is true or not) and might turn to other distributions. > > Really, I think it would be a terrible idea. It's not "just a name". > SUSE linux is not just a name it is a movement which says a lot for the distribution. It represents quality in a product whether open/free or paid for.
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