Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 03:46 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 02:16, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 09:14 pm, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:16:29 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > > >If you don't know what SuSE means, look it up.
> > >
> > > Wrong, it's SUSE. The special meaning it once had is purely
> > > historical.
> > >
> > > Philipp
> > > Philipp Thomas                          work: pth@xxxxxxx
> > >                                      private: philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx
> > > R&D, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr.5, 90409 Nuremberg, GERMANY
> >
> > You mean quality and attention to detail?
> >
> > Steven
>
> That's a bit harsh - I know everyone's been having a fit about KDE, and I'd
> prefer to see it remain the default myself. But SUSE (now I know) 10 is a
> fantastic job. I'm having a ton of fun with it ...

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