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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

AmogOS will sue them to oblivion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

NotOpenYetSus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Chameleon Linux: Changing Stripes Edition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A Distribution Named SUE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I vote for the new name to be Margot Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Finally

ClosedSUSE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

OpenSawWWWwwce

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

to further suit its* business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

To fursuit it is business

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
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