On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:44:50 +0100 Werner Flamme <werner.flamme@ufz.de> wrote:
Am 28.02.2018 um 12:05 schrieb Liam Proven:
Because it isn't. I didn't know, and I have been working with SUSE and SUSE products since it was SuSE in 1996 or so.
Any you never noticed the founding of openSUSE?
Nope. As far as I was concerned, as an outsider no longer actively using SUSE at that time, after Novell bought SUSE, the entry-level product became free of charge and the server version became expensive. That's all. Later, the free version split into 2 branches: a rolling-release version and periodic stable snapshots. And you know what? I reckon that is what most of the rest of the Linux world believes, too. I am an expert in this stuff, writing about it professionally for more than 20 years now. I track the progress of dozens of distributions, regularly evaluate them in VMs, recommend them to people for different reasons and purposes. It's been a large part of my job since the 1990s. And no, I never suspected such a big change had happened. I didn't work much with SUSE until I came to work here. I didn't pay special attention to it, no more than I did to Red Hat or Mageia or OpenMandriva or Arch or Gentoo. And it doesn't say anything different on the website. So why should I think anything was different?
And it never occured to you, that "openSUSE C.d" may be a successor of "SUSE Professional A.b", but it is not a SUSE (company) product any more, but an openSUSE (community) "product"?
No. Why would I? It doesn't say that anywhere. I don't dig through mission statements and things. I don't care. I am not interested. I'm only interested in what it does and how much it costs, nothing else.
Wow. I didn't think this could happen.
I am as surprised as you are that you can't imagine this.
But I never thought that people might deduct "this is the same company" just by two websites using the same animal in the website logo. Hell, how big must this penguin company be, and what might be its real name?
Yes. 2 organisations with the same name and the same logo, using the same version numbers they have for 25 years, but with a word or 2 added to the product name... But no, they're not the same thing at all, they're made by different teams under different management. No, I would never suspect that. It sounds crazy. It wouldn't cross my mind. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org