-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Bertolo wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 11:06 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
We will likely rename "it" for 10.2 anyway.
I guess there should be a clear difference between Novell business products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell-sponsored projects such as openSUSE. Have a look at Redhat. Their opensource project is named fedora.
Redhat chose to split between Redhat and Fedora. So what ? Just because Redhat did it that way, it doesn't mean that it's a good idea ;)
So, if Novell want to keep the trademark "SUSE" for their products it would be wise to rename the open distribution to something completely different.
I strongly disagree, to say the least.
"SUSE" has been around for a long time, as a name (even if it was
"S.u.S.E." and "SuSE" in the past).
You might be new to SUSE Linux, but the distribution has a very strong
history, especially in Germany, and renaming the distribution to
something else is totally *not* a good idea.
New users might now be interested in SUSE Linux because it is part of
Novell.
But I can tell you for sure that a lot of people like and use SUSE Linux
because it is still produced by the highly skilled technical staff that
has been doing S.u.S.E. Linux and SuSE Linux in the past, with the same
focus on quality and polish.
If you now call it "Novell Linux" or something else, totally
different... well... anything different from "SUSE" actually, it will
mean a lot more than just a change of name to many people.
Some might see this as "the last bit of S.u.S.E./SuSE going away"
(whether this is true or not) and might turn to other distributions.
Really, I think it would be a terrible idea. It's not "just a name".
If I had any weight in a decision like that (which I don't ;)), I would
veto against it, totally.
cheers
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