I would be interested for the reason (how) the SUSE Management people have received the idea with the openSUSE rebranding as an improvement. It seems, that some self-reflection and analysis of the behaviour (incl. the relationship) have been missing.
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2024 um 13:05 Uhr Von: "Lubos Kocman" <lubos.kocman@suse.com> An: "Richard Brown" <rbrown@suse.de> Cc: project@lists.opensuse.org Betreff: Re: Rebranding of the Project
Just to state that we (Leap 15.3+) use SUSE's kernel binary packages
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 12:48 PM Richard Brown <rbrown@suse.de> wrote:
On 2024-07-12 11:12, JJ Is wrote:
A relatively new user here, although I've been aware of Opensuse for a long time as a bit of a Linux Distro Hopper. This is obviously a bit of a confusing issue as even your own Wiki says: "openSUSE is also the base for SUSE's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products."
Suggesting that OpenSUSE is used by SUSE but it's not SUSE as you say? What is the relationship? Didn't they stop offering an open source free version when they bought it but it was kept going thereafter by a group of volunteers is my understanding and maybe the two have diverged since then?
The Kernel is also the basis for SUSE's Enterprise Products
But no one would ever get confused and ask the question "the Kernel is used by SUSE but is not SUSE as you say?"
It's absolutely right, present, correct, and normal for things SUSE use in their commercial products have different names than SUSE's commercial products. The fact SUSE shares its name with one of those buckets it draws from for it's products is the anomaly that needs to be addressed. Not the fact that they're drawing from what we do here in this Project. I'm certain that will continue whatever we do regarding the name "openSUSE"
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Best regards
Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager