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SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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wow. I had a good opinion of suse up to this point. what a silly request after all these years.
Corporate backing is a two-edged sword, unfortunately.
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
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.