Hello, Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2019, 09:21:09 CEST schrieb jdd@dodin.org:
Le 02/10/2019 à 08:55, Simon Lees a écrit :
Enough of the people suggesting the change are very active in the openSUSE community especially around areas such as branding and design so in my opinion atleast there are enough willing volunteers that if the name change vote is successful they will be able to do the work required. I also guess that there will be a "latence" period, where the necessary work will be prepared, and the change applied only is all is OK.
Yes, of course - _if_ the decision is to change the name, this won't happen over night. In that case, I'd expect a quite long transition period (IMHO at least a year). Think of it as somewhat similar to what we had in the past: "SUSE Linux 10.0 - made by the openSUSE project" (and same for 10.1). 10.2 was then named "openSUSE 10.2". Needless to say that changing to a completely different name needs much more effort than "just" adding the "open" part.
anyway, I would like some comment about the recent news I have read about SUSE and openSUSE being allowed to live together, this is crucial if the change is dismissed
IANAL ;-) but I'll try nevertheless. The short summary is that it's legally possible to let the openSUSE foundation use and/or own the openSUSE trademark, and let SUSE and openSUSE be competitors in the Linux market. Of course this will need negotiations and finallly a contract between SUSE (who currently own the openSUSE trademark) and the openSUSE foundation to hand over the openSUSE trademark, but I'm sure this is doable and - personal opinion - worth the effort. If we decide to change the name, we won't need such a contract (or only for the transition period) - but OTOH we'll have to spend lots of marketing efforts to make the new name known. My feeling is that this would be much more work than negotiating a contract with SUSE about the openSUSE trademark. Regards, Christian Boltz -- ... you start off with a typical message, let's say a 2.5MB Word document containing three lines of text and a macro virus ... [Peter Gutmann] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org