cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37281970
Believe it or not, an unexpected conflict has arisen in the openSUSE community with its long-time supporter and namesake, the SUSE company.
At the heart of this tension lies a quiet request that has stirred not-so-quiet ripples across the open source landscape: SUSE has formally asked openSUSE to discontinue using its brand name.
Richard Brown, a key figure within the openSUSE project, shared insights into the discussions that have unfolded behind closed doors.
Despite SUSE’s request’s calm and respectful tone, the implications of not meeting it could be far-reaching, threatening the symbiotic relationship that has benefited both entities over the years.
LibreSUSE 😎
I’d love them to replace SUSE with SUS. Distrowatch click rate +500%
I would that too
Oh wow. SUSE family of distribution is relatively small footprint. Whole story sounds like “splitting the hair”. The only reasonable explanation is that SUSE hired some self-glorified marketer from big corp. omg…
Rename it to openSUS
TIL SUSE exists and wouldn’t have found out if not for OpenSUSE and this news. It’s kinda weird to open their website and see this:
They are the second largest “Linux company” by revenue after Red Hat iirc
It’s SUSSY Linux time
Introducing openSUSA
That is the phonetic spelling of how you’re supposed to say SUSE. It’s. SUSAhhh, like appaloosa. I know this because I watch that goofy video on youtube.
Just change the name. It’s not a big deal. SUSE is a stupid name anyway.
I think it’s one of those things that will become a bigger deal indirectly because of all the knock-on effects. Like the branding, they’ll have to have the logos all redesigned, the domain name will have to change, it’ll mess up a lot of troubleshooting when people google the old name etc.
All people named Susanne: 😐
Call it gecs os and have 100 gecs do the promotion for it.
SUS_OS
Sus
Seems a pointless endeavour. The open and enterprise sides are so deeply linked, it makes sense that they share a brand.
Separating them only weakens the broader SUSE ecosystem.
Makes sense really.
OpenSUSE is not the open version of SUSE ( SUSE Linux Enterprise - SLE ). If you compare to Red Hat, OpenSUSE is Fedora, not CentOS.
I can see how people would get the wrong idea.
It is a bit crappy that they waited so long though. On the desktop, OpenSUSE is quite an established brand.
openSUSE is already a brand, now the main thing is not to get lost.
openZUSE
OpenSUSEd.
SUSiE
