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Believe it or not, an unexpected conflict has arisen in the openSUSE community with its long-time supporter and namesake, the SUSE company.
At the heart of this tension lies a quiet request that has stirred not-so-quiet ripples across the open source landscape: SUSE has formally asked openSUSE to discontinue using its brand name.
Richard Brown, a key figure within the openSUSE project, shared insights into the discussions that have unfolded behind closed doors.
Despite SUSE’s request’s calm and respectful tone, the implications of not meeting it could be far-reaching, threatening the symbiotic relationship that has benefited both entities over the years.
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This is absurd
This is absurd
Years ago, when there were talks about establishing an independent foundation, sane people already warned that relying on a trademark not owned by them is risky. That was batted away as a non-issue. Now here we are.
AbsurdOS – the free enterprise operating system
OpenSUSE is not an enterprise operating system. This is probably why they want the rebrand.
Zuse Linux
wow. I had a good opinion of suse up to this point. what a silly request after all these years.
From my own looking into this it looks like more of a suggestion than a request (for now at least), just a “this might be a good idea, we should look into it”.
I just don’t get what they are thinking. opensuse is basically free advertising for them.
Yea, I only know suse from opensuse and of my company ever needs Linux support, I would go to suse because I know it from openSuse…
And I would love to work for suse because I had such a good experience with openSuse
I think a name change would be pretty dump…
this is how I feel. If I am involved in work decisions I will recommend the enterprise version because the support just makes sense and is incredibly cheap vs most software. It actually took me awhile to understand the whole fedora, centos, redhat connection.
It’s a strange suggestion after very recently working closely with openSUSE to ensure Leap can use the same binaries as SLE, though
Corporate backing is a two-edged sword, unfortunately.
Strange is using and marketing someone else’s name without written permission.
Why do you think linux distros and free software have such strange names? To avoid stepping on someone toes without expensive trademark research.
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openSUSE is already a brand, now the main thing is not to get lost.
When I hear openSUSE, I think of german engineering and resources from SUSE, with a history of innovating great infrastructure.
With a new name, distanced from the SUSE part, I’ll probably feel more like if this is yet another random derivative created by a small group who might soon lose interest.
If GeckOS doesn’t work out… SUSEbanthony, LazySUSE, SUSEsarandon, DrSUSE, uSUSEalsuspects, OkcanSUSE (must be sung)… #puns
legallyDistinctOpenSUSE
Those all use SUSE though lol
@JackbyDev @mobilehugh why not just ChamleOS?
That sounds like the worst cereal lol.
Rocky Linux 2
Rocky Rocky Linux
Rocky^2 linux for short
Makes sense really.
OpenSUSE is not the open version of SUSE ( SUSE Linux Enterprise - SLE ). If you compare to Red Hat, OpenSUSE is Fedora, not CentOS.
I can see how people would get the wrong idea.
It is a bit crappy that they waited so long though. On the desktop, OpenSUSE is quite an established brand.
Finally
ClosedSUSE
OpenSUS
This is a massive miss-play on Suse’s part. Essentially all the good will, and recognition I have for Suse is based on OpenSuse. It’s the reason many of the places I’ve worked at now run a Suse product instead of redhat. Seriously, when I think of OpenSuse and Suse as a whole I barely differentiate the toonunlike redhat and fedora. That’s likely the reason for the switch but I cannot see how-this does anything but benefit them.
From the article too there are some concerns. Suse is, admittedly, trying to cause opensuse to change direction ans managment to further suit it’s buisness at threat of removing support. This is sad to see.
to further suit its* business.
To fursuit it is business
call it SUES. SUSE won’t be able to complain since they are so hung up on it being pronounced SU-SAY.
TIL SUSE exists and wouldn’t have found out if not for OpenSUSE and this news. It’s kinda weird to open their website and see this:
SUSE is such a stupid name. Like, it is stupid to say in German.
Just rename it SUSGeckoOS
I don’t know what’s stupid to say about Gesellschaft für Software und Systementwicklung mit beschränkter Haftung
If GeckOS isn’t already taken, it could be kinda cool.
As opposed to G.E.C.K. OS.
Why Geck ?
A gecko is a lizard, so it’s in keeping with SUSE’s chameleon theme. Maybe a little too similar for corporate.
I think Komodo Linux, or KomodOS are good options too, but I can’t recall if they were already used for a distro.
Komodo (last update 2006)
They are the second largest “Linux company” by revenue after Red Hat iirc
The request was respectful and SUSEs support on OpenSUSE is very helping the project so I’d personally be fine with fulfilling that request
Just rename it jeSUSE, because nobody fucks with the jeSUSE.
We already have JeOS
Fuck jususe, and fuck Jesus. Also fuck OpenJeSUSE.
There’s enough fucks to go around, for sure.
I also enjoy a good edge
Eight years of long term support, dude.
