Hi, Am 05.06.19 um 14:32 schrieb Michal Kubecek:
On Monday, 3 June 2019 10:35 Richard Brown wrote:
So whatever your views, please sound off in this thread, even if your view is already echoed by others.
Do you think openSUSE should change it's name?
My view is: no in general, strong no to any change dropping "SUSE" from the name. Come on, we already ditched "Linux", if we ditch "SUSE" too, what will be left? :-)
OK, seriously now. While I do understand that renaming openSUSE to something not containing "SUSE" would make certain administrative tasks easier, I don't think it would be worth the harm it would do on general perception of the distribution.
In my eyes, the connection to SUSE was always something that made the distribution interesting, what made it stand out in the ever growing list of nameless "Yet Another Linux Distribution"'s (and that was long before I joined SUSE). Recently we made that connection even stronger with Leap but dropping "SUSE" from the name would inevitably be seen as a step in the opposite direction. The fact that actual technical disconnection of openSUSE from SUSE would be unfeasible for years (if ever) doesn't change anything. The perception and irrational factors are way more important than we would like.
You may use Fedora as an example of successful rename but I believe the position of Fedora is much weaker than the position of old RHL used to be. I don't claim it's only because of the rename (the raise of Ubuntu is surely to blame) but I believe the name is part of the problem and I believe it did harm its position. And one more thing to consider: IIRC the impuls for renaming came from Red Hat which makes the situation completely different from ours.
As for logo change, I don't think it's needed either but I don't really mind. I would certainly appreciate a decent shade of green (i.e. exact opposite of recent SUSE branding changes).
usually I stay pretty silent about those kind of discussions especially typical "metoo" posts but in this very case I want to raise my opinion and have to say that I agree 100% with what Michal mentioned before with the addition that I also would discard any ideas of significant logo change. So at least one cannot say later that people didn't give their feedback. That being said I'm currently not affected by any formal issues the current setup creates for certain groups. So if it's absolutely unreasonable to keep the actual setup then this opinion probably does not matter. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org