On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:02:56AM +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
Onsdag 28 juni 2006 09:08 skrev jdd:
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A colleague of mine and I just ordered 7,500 DVD's copies of the 10.1 release of openSUSE. Novell does hand them out freely, but mostly at events. We also make openSUSE freely available for download from openSUSE.org.
we definitively need to rethink the SUSE Linux versus opensuse linux naming...
(TED is a Provo SE)
I've pretty much given up - how can we explain the difference between SUSE Linux and openSUSE to people, when even top Novell marketing guys like Ted Haeger refuse to use the correct names?
Is it a problem? I think so.
- It's simply not correct. - It causes SUSE Linux questions to appear on the opensuse-malinglist, irc-channel etc.. - It results in people not knowing what the opensuse-project is about, since people think it's just a distro - and thus the message of the community built distro gets lost. - It feeds the confusion and numerous misconceptions: "opensuse is non-novell suse" "opensuse is the free (as in beer) version, that's different from the retail version" "opensuse is a non-oss version, that's different from the retail version that's filled with closed stuff" etc.
Either we should just give in and call the distro OpenSUSE officially - or someone should tell Michael Meeks, Ted Haeger and more what the hell the correct name for the distro is, that they're promoting.
At least Greg Mancusi-Ungaro seems to get it right..
We will likely rename "it" for 10.2 anyway. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org