Re: [opensuse] openSUSE merits a better home page

On 29 October 2017 at 18:00, Per Jessen wrote:

Richard Brown wrote:

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On 28 October 2017 at 19:35, Wols Lists wrote:

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I want ONE place, that's "all about SuSE". And this list, to me, seems *supportive* of SuSE.

I snipped the rest of your email because I want to let it peculate before I decide if I want to respond to it or not, but the above needs to be addressed

- the openSUSE Project is not SuSE - the openSUSE Project is an independent, contribution led, community founded in 2005 - the openSUSE Project is sponsored by many sponsors, and has contributors from many corporations, including SUSE - SUSE is a company selling commercial Linux products, founded in 1992 - SUSE has not been called SuSE since 2004

For more detail, feel free to flick through this slide deck - https://speakerdeck.com/sysrich/oggcamp-2017-opensuse-a-reintroduction

Richard, do you really find it appropriate to pick on a mistake and respond with this useless sarcasm?

Dear Peter (or should I call you Jessie?), When discussing someone, or something, is generally considered basic respect to refer to them correctly by their name. You are not Peter, nor are you Jessie, and I imagine you may be somewhat offended by the fact that in this email I am not referring to you by your actual name of Per. In the case of the openSUSE Project, it is a name that has lasted for 12 years, and has had thousands of contributors spend significant amounts of their spare time working as part of the openSUSE Project. This is separate from SUSE, the corporation, a different name that has lasted for 25 years, and has had thousands of employees spend significant amounts of their life, including work and spare time, helping create SUSE into the corporation it now is. I think it's grossly disrespectful to either organisation and the people who have worked in them, to fail to use their respective names correctly. Furthermore, it is troublesome on a topic like this in particular, because SUSE (the corporation) have little to do with the homepage of openSUSE, nothing to do with the governance of openSUSE, and by intent have little to do with the projects direction (if they did, do you think openSUSE would still have KDE given SUSE no longer ship KDE, for example.) My advice to Thony Oldboy would be to refer to the respective organisations by their correct naming, and when being inclusive and discussing both, do as I do - either mention them both by name, or occatioanlly I get lazy and use a wildcard to refer to them as *SUSE Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org