On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:02:56AM +0200, Martin Schlander wrote: > Onsdag 28 juni 2006 09:08 skrev jdd: > > From http://reverendted.wordpress.com/ > > > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
