Chris Cox wrote:
Summer is the time of discontent. While Red Hat showed that you can do damage and do damage and do damage again to your brand. I don't think SUSE should be making a request to "hold my beer" on this one.
What's the motto apparently lost? Have a lot of fun? Come onboard! (pun intended)
Obviously I can't change the hearts of those involved. Praying for sanity.
That message is on-point, RedHat under IBM's leadership has fully demolished the faith of its users and it's safe to say to say that SUSE's request for a rebrand of openSUSE will damage their own consumer base and possibly kill all future prospects that would have been obtained by the trust we put on the brand 'openSUSE to SUSE'. If a long-time openSUSE user had the necessity and means to pay for an OS (example: some government contract), they (me included) would most certainly vouch for SUSE. Take the name off and when that time comes they will never choose SUSE. This just seems like an awful and short-sighted business practice by SUSE and it will be such a waste of time for all the contributors to just rebrand openSUSE to death. I am hoping for a very kind and detailed rejection which takes in account all the replies to this thread.