On Wednesday 20 June 2007 20:48, Francis Giannaros wrote:

On 6/20/07, Francis Giannaros wrote:

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On 6/20/07, Michael Loeffler wrote:

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Hi, --snip--

I agree that the formulation proposed here is better, as it's not as easily open to misinterpretation, but I still think that an advert for SLE in openSUSE's main description is odd. Perhaps SLE could get a mention below in a new section (similar to the Report Bugs, Featured Articles ones)? I'm not really sure though, and I don't feel strongly about this. Thoughts?

Another idea might be to make "SUSE Linux Enterprise" link to novell.com/linux, in which case the last advert sentence isn't needed, while we still get in the good touch of noting that it's the base for SUSE Linux Enterprise. Sounds good. So just removing last sentence and link out of SUSE Linux Enterprise: Come be a part of the project that feeds into Novell's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise [novell.com/linux) products.

Okay? M

Kind thoughts,

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Michael Loeffler wrote:

Come be a part of the project that feeds into Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise

I still think than the word "feed" is ambiguous. Who eats the other? remember the movie "we feed the world" (this title means more "we eat the world" than "we give food to the world") may be only the project used by Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise but I think all this may be counter productive. I work on an opensource project, I don't want to work for free for Novell. Any word saying that the free work will be used by a comercial product may be misunderstood. Use by comercials of opensource projects is autorized, but not so popular against the opensource community. I remember problems with sites making copies of OpenOffice.org... secondly, the very significance of the sentence seems odd. it seems to say "you already know that Novells suse linux... is the best product ever, so you can trust openSUSE. sorry, but this is stupid. Any Novells customer glad with it (and I expect many are) will... keep Novell products, why switch to openSUSE? and nearly No non Novell customer know anything of SLES/SLED. I would be much more usefull to say "The users of the world best Linux distro, openSUSE can have even more, a professional support and 7 years updates using the Novell openSUSE version, SLES/SLED". Much more people know openSUSE than Novell SLES/SLED... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org

On 6/21/07, Michael Loeffler wrote:

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 20:48, Francis Giannaros wrote:

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On 6/20/07, Francis Giannaros wrote:

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On 6/20/07, Michael Loeffler wrote:

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Hi, --snip--

I agree that the formulation proposed here is better, as it's not as easily open to misinterpretation, but I still think that an advert for SLE in openSUSE's main description is odd. Perhaps SLE could get a mention below in a new section (similar to the Report Bugs, Featured Articles ones)? I'm not really sure though, and I don't feel strongly about this. Thoughts?

Another idea might be to make "SUSE Linux Enterprise" link to novell.com/linux, in which case the last advert sentence isn't needed, while we still get in the good touch of noting that it's the base for SUSE Linux Enterprise. Sounds good. So just removing last sentence and link out of SUSE Linux Enterprise: Come be a part of the project that feeds into Novell's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise [novell.com/linux) products.

Okay?

I was thinking about using the formulation you originally proposed in the thread instead, with the link. So: openSUSE also provides the base for Novell's award-winning [http://novell.com/linux SUSE Linux Enterprise] products. As jdd said, a link to award winning might be a good idea if there already is such a page. Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:43, Francis Giannaros wrote:

On 6/20/07, Michael Loeffler wrote:

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Hi, Benji came up on IRC with the following suggestion: "The openSUSE project is...access to openSUSE. [no change]

Here you can find and join a community....most usable Linux. [added 'and join']

openSUSE also provides the base for Novell's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products. Check out Novell today for enterprise Linux solutions [changeg the binning till ..for Novell]

Thanks to Benji. I think that's proactive inviting people to join and it sounds more that openSUSE is good enough to be SLE base and does not have a notion of community = free developers for SLE. But still invite people to check out SLE.

I agree that the formulation proposed here is better, as it's not as easily open to misinterpretation, but I still think that an advert for SLE in openSUSE's main description is odd. Perhaps SLE could get a mention below in a new section (similar to the Report Bugs, Featured Articles ones)? I'm not really sure though, and I don't feel strongly about this. Thoughts?

Kind regards,

Invitation to see enterprise products is important for our sponsor and your idea to put it right below green box would be visible enough and more appropriate. *********************** ==openSUSE and Novell== The openSUSE is a serious project, it provides the base for [Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise products]. [Check them out]. [More info] [Trial] [Buy] Any similarity is intentional :-) *********************** I would drop "our award wininning", it is so misused that makes more damage than use, unless it is a link to page with awards. This sounds to me good for both sides. Thoughts? -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org