Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
- From: Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:41:50 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <l5vln1lfijepvvs8cfqhg120op1s2um2os@xxxxxxx>
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:51:16 +0100 (CET), Carlos E. R. wrote:
>It seems that «in German nouns are capitalized,
In general, yes.
>Therefore, the "u" from "und" was lower case in "Software und
>System Entwicklung".
Yes.
>It seems then that it was Novell who changed SuSE to SUSE
No, that happened before Novell bought SUSE.
>I stronlgly dislike companies changing their logos.
You may dislike it, but a company is still free to choose a logo and
Name.
BTW, I know of at least two German computer magazines that decided to
ignore the changing case and style (first with dots, then without and
now all capitals) and instead write it like any other Name, i.e. only
the first letter capitalized.
Philipp
>It seems that «in German nouns are capitalized,
In general, yes.
>Therefore, the "u" from "und" was lower case in "Software und
>System Entwicklung".
Yes.
>It seems then that it was Novell who changed SuSE to SUSE
No, that happened before Novell bought SUSE.
>I stronlgly dislike companies changing their logos.
You may dislike it, but a company is still free to choose a logo and
Name.
BTW, I know of at least two German computer magazines that decided to
ignore the changing case and style (first with dots, then without and
now all capitals) and instead write it like any other Name, i.e. only
the first letter capitalized.
Philipp
| < Previous | Next > |