Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 4:02 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:


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>
> 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.
>
 Steven,
The USA didn't do it, SUSE, the company you are trying to enforce your 
ideas of proper usage upon, did it. They likely had good and sufficient 
reasons for doing it.
There was an email to that effect ages ago...  IIRC.  I probably even 
still have the email somewhere on a backup.. But this has become too 
fatuous a discussion for me to go dig it out.

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j
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