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.

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
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    4 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
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      4 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
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        4 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>”.