Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Tony,
>
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 19:50, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > James,
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 17:42, James Knott wrote:
> > > > The box I got last month says "SUSE", not "SuSE", which was on the
> > > > previous versions.
> > >
> > > What are you people seeing? Look closely at that 'u'. It has the
> > > form of a lower-case letter, just that the point size is chosen
> > > such that its x-height is as tall as the cap height of the two
> > > 'S'-es and the 'E'.
> >
> > Check out the SUSE website; I would be hard-pressed to imagine that
> > the "U" is lower case in any of the places one may see "SUSE".  I
> > thought it was SuSE, but perhaps not any longer ;-)
>  
> Now I get it. One of them is losing KDE. The other isn't. They won't 
> tell us which is which until it's a fait accompli... 
>
> Anyway, look at the trademark in the printed materials. Look at the 
> lower right of the boot screen (press ESC during booting). It's 
> undeniable that the 'u' is lower case in all those places.
>
> Here's another interesting measure, though I'm not sure what, if 
> anything, it means:
>
> % locate suse |egrep -v '^/(home|root9)' |wc -l
> 2610

<snip>

I think it means they don't have enough money to pay the art department 
to change all the logos.  Or they don't have anybody left that can use 
grep? The latter is scarey 'cause they'll usually work for just pizza 
and soda. <g>


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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"