Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

-Allen

 
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