Renaming OpenSUSE

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by Tomte • 7 years ago

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jpeg_hero• 7 years ago

See if Illumos is available?

guiriduro2• 7 years ago

Why not just keep calling it OpenSUSE, a recognised brand, and use the leverage that its brand recognition brings to SUSE (the company) 's products, to get them to do what the community prefers, or keep the right sort of distance etc. ? Sounds like a win/win.

masklinn2• 7 years ago

The SUSE part of openSUSE means any use of the name will be constrained and controlled by the company. Which is much of the issue already:

the openSUSE board spends a significant amount of its time dealing with trademark issues, to the detriment of the rest of the project.

Having openSUSE split from SUSE but keep using the trademark would make things worse, even if the relationship remains cordial and of perfectly good faith.

guiriduro2• 7 years ago

I guess the trademark issue sits on the downsides column, whilst brand recognition is on the other: your board will have to do a bunch of work to re-establish the recognition they will lose by a name change. Have they properly considered this? Will the board's "trademark issues" time gain offset the extra work of going through name change and brand re-establishment?

SUSE and OpenSUSE gain by the association (I argue), and it is that gain to SUSE, along with perceived OS community support, which is OpenSUSE's leverage to create the relationship it wants with SUSE including license to use the trademark without referral (within sensible limits). If SUSE are being intransigent or controlling, I would agree a renaming is an unfortunate necessity - but it hasn't been shown that they are, so why go through the unnecessary pain?

temikus• 7 years ago

Gecko linux?

Trilkhai• 7 years ago

There's already an OpenSUSE spin with that name, so that won't work. OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any distros called Iguana, Crocodile, or Agamidae yet...

checker• 7 years ago

Lizard Linux

prepend• 7 years ago

ONSL is Not Suse Linux

ONSL

SomeDudeInKy• 7 years ago

I like it, the acronym is able to be easily pronounced.

orpheline• 7 years ago

Then why not 'INSL'?

jobigoud• 7 years ago

Same argument can be used for all recursive acronyms. Both GNU and Linux for example could have anything as first letter.

moonfern• 7 years ago

Would a different spelling help with the copyright issue? Examples "opensuze" "opensoese"

And khula-suse/khulazuse (Hindi for open) ?

I've a suggestion: Khula-use

majewsky2• 7 years ago

It's not a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue. Anything resembling the trademark can be considered an infringement, and it's up to a judge to decide what is.

Double_a_92• 7 years ago

Then it must be really completely different. Something like "ChameleonOS" would also infringe the trademark since that animal as logo for an OS is also protected?

jacques_chester• 7 years ago

Trademarks can be shared through contract easily enough; this is more or less already happening.

masklinn2• 7 years ago

Examples "opensuze"

Not convinced by that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suze_(drink)

perlgeek• 7 years ago

I know that the name SUSE stems from an acronym, but it's also a woman's name in Germany. So maybe switch it out for another, equally short woman's name? "Lisa Linux" or "Nora Linux" or so maybe?

vectorEQ• 7 years ago

why not a mans name this time around? like Tim linux or Hanz linux? :(

world32• 7 years ago

"Linux" is already named after a man!

dEnigma• 7 years ago

As an Austrian, I've never met a woman named "Suse". "Susi" is however quite common (short for "Susanne")

boomskats• 7 years ago

How about SEntOS?

Yetino• 7 years ago

OpenSushi

silversconfused• 7 years ago

Wouldn't the past tense of suse be susaw?

jasoneckert• 7 years ago

What about ESUS (which is SUSE backwards) - it would preserve the SUSE brand in a fun way that will likely catch on. Plus, it's the name of a Celtic god.

Renaming OpenSUSE

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