-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2017-11-05 a las 20:19 -0500, Felix Miata escribió:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2017-11-02 23:31 (UTC+0100):
On Thursday, 2017-11-02 at 22:21 -0000, Wols Lists wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Personally, I love the SuSE name. I don't use it because some people get somewhat pissed, so I use the modern name instead. Thus I only use SuSE when I want to stress the point that I'm talking about is old times.
It's pretty common to prefer nicks to polysyllabic names. In a written context, SuSE was a good name, openSUSE very bad. Exactly how is one supposed to write it as a first word of a sentence? That there would be any question is what makes it bad, not whatever the answer may be.
Reminds me. There is an old bug with the speller in open/libre Office: it does not accept "end of sentence. openSUSE ..." as correct. I just checked: LO still corrects openSUSE to OpenSUSE.
I hate when a company changes name.
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Always encountering a corporate rename it comes to mind desire to obscure or bury the past. Anyone else remember this one?
GoldStar -> LG Electronics, Inc.
No, not me.
I bought an LG product once before making the name change discovery: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/106-dvd-recorders-standard-def/818511-first-at...
Poor design, loaded with inferior quality capacitors. I haven't bought anything branded LG since.
I got a few LG devices before I found out :-(
In Spanish, we have a saying: «La mona con vestido de seda mona se queda», literally "the monkey with silk dress is still a monkey", but google translates as "the cute girl in silk dress stays".
:-D
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