cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37281970
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.
We already have JeOS
Eight years of long term support, dude.
Fuck jususe, and fuck Jesus. Also fuck OpenJeSUSE.
I also enjoy a good edge
Off the top of my head…
- Gecko or GeckOS
- LizOS
- ReptilOS
- ChamelOS
- KomodOS
Just change the name. It’s not a big deal. SUSE is a stupid name anyway.
I agree but it could be worse (Pop!_OS)
I think it’s one of those things that will become a bigger deal indirectly because of all the knock-on effects. Like the branding, they’ll have to have the logos all redesigned, the domain name will have to change, it’ll mess up a lot of troubleshooting when people google the old name etc.
All people named Susanne: 😐
legallyDistinctOpenSUSE
@JackbyDev @mobilehugh why not just ChamleOS?
That sounds like the worst cereal lol.
SUS_OS
AmogOS will sue them to oblivion.
Sus
OpenSOOSE
OpenSusame
openSOOOSE
OpenSUSEd.
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.
NotSUSE
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.
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.
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”.
It’s a strange suggestion after very recently working closely with openSUSE to ensure Leap can use the same binaries as SLE, though
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.
