It’s become clear to many that Red Hat’s recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it’s fallen from its respected place as “the open organization.” SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors. We connect the dots.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      2 months ago

      There’s always been the risk of confusion and openSUSE project seemed to have understood that SUSE could disallow the name at any moment. A name change does make sense for both. Especially now that even Leap might be distancing itself from SLE and whatnot.

      • Drasglaf@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        There’s always been the risk of confusion

        A name change does make sense for both

        Then make SUSE become ClosedSUSE. It couldn’t be easier.

      • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 months ago

        A name change does make sense for both. Especially now that even Leap might be distancing itself from SLE and whatnot.

        Agreed, but GeekOS or whatever it was they had on that oSC slide … Cheesus, they can do better than that.

        Yeah, I get the mascot’s name is Geeko, so maybe that is where they’re getting GeekOS. But I think I read that the mascot has to go together with the name anyway.

        • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
          7·
          2 months ago

          Cheesus, they can do better than that

          On recent performance, no they can’t. I mean, they had the chance to use Driftwood and went with Slowroll.

          • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            2 months ago

            What about the proposal to just drop the name openSUSE with no replacement? And let each distro just be called Tumbleweed, Leap, Aeon, etc.

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
      21·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, OpenSUSE is the only project with a name like that, so it makes some sense that they’d want it changed.
      There’s no OpenRedHat, no OpenNovell, no OpenLinspire, etc.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        • OpenLinux

        • OpenUnix

        • OpenJDK

        • OpenWatcom

        • OpenWebOS

        • OpenVMS

        • OpenOffice

        • OpenTF, briefly.

        I think OpenNovell was a thing too.

        Thing is, ‘Open-’ was the prefix for a LOT of derivations about 20 years ago. I’m surprised you’ve never heard of any.

        • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
          1·
          2 months ago

          Not at all what my point was. There’s indeed plenty of Open-something (or Libre-something) projects under the sun, but no free/open spins of commercial projects named simply “Open<Trademarked company name / commercial offering>”.