Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 02:01, Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:45:38AM +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > >Yes, but I really meant the fact that typing SuSE required just a bit of
> > >extra effort to get it right.  And there is a reason behind having the
> > >lower-case 'u'.  It is, IMO, an insult to the German language to ignore
> > >that detail.  I could be wrong, but I suspect SUSE is an Americanism.  I
> > >am quite proud of my 31+ decades of American ancestry, but this tendency
> > >to "normalize" every nuance of a foreign culture is utterly offensive.
> >
> > Oh stop it. It changed before Novell was involved
> >
> > And I fail to see how "Software und System Entwicklung" has anything to
> > do with the German language.
>
> Maybe because that's German for Software and System development? ;)
>
> > But why do we keep getting these off topic threads?
>
> Because you could as a question on here about setting up a server and at
> least three people would reply saying what brand of waffles they like.

Mmm, waffles ... with maple syrup please
>
> -Allen
>
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