On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:28:25 +0200, Christian Imhorst wrote:
I am afraid that renaming openSUSE would not be like Fedeora vs. RedHat. It would be more like OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice where many people are confused and they don't know wich one to choose.
Why would it be more like OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice? If openSUSE changed its name to something else, the openSUSE name would not be in concurrent use with whatever came next. No confusion there. Maybe a period of "Chameleon Linux - formerly known as openSUSE" or something like that to bridge the names could be done. Rebranding is tricky (don't get me wrong), but in my mind, this would be clearer than Fedora vs. RedHat, because with that, the original name for the community distribution continued to be used by the enterprise products. Here, we already have confusion between "SUSE" and "openSUSE" - as I mentioned before, on various venues, I've had people respond very angrily when they've asked SLE questions in openSUSE venues and have been told they need to talk to SUSE and that the commercial products are not supported by the openSUSE community (nor are they sold by the community - seriously, I have people ask questions about SLE pricing on occasion who then get pissed off because the openSUSE project can't answer their question on Facebook). The closeness of the names *creates* confusion as it is because people think that because openSUSE contains SUSE, the two are completely interchangeable from a support and business perspective. -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org