Re: 10.1 RC1 : install by internet

Robert Hull wrote:
Each to his own. But did you add to the confusion by Berating SUSE
publicly because they had *not* called the SUSE Linux OSS version
OpenSUSE, or did you learn that what you had thought might have been
called OpenSUSE was actually called "SUSE Linux OSS". If the latter,
how did that serve to prolong/increase your confusion?

It did not prolong _my_ confusion, but it did point out that others will
still be confused with it as well. As a result of this, there will be no
SUSE OSS anymore. Instead of having and openSUSE and a SUSE
distribution, we now have just one. SUSE, wich is an even better
sollution. (Now only hoping that the confusion on the FTP sites is also
solved soon)

Even SUSE people are sometimes still talking about openSUSE as a
distro, instead of SUSE OSS or SUSE.

Using a shorthand reference to a product that is otherwise named is
common practice and does not necessarily represent either confusion or
cluelessness.

Using a shorthand reference is fine. I am not asking to say SUSE Linux.
Using the wrong name is either confusion or cluelessness or even worse,
both.

Now if their own developers have no clue, I would say that it is
confusing.

The leap from "SUSE people are sometimes still talking about openSUSE"
to "their own developers have no clue" is greater than trying to leap
from Niagara Falls to the far side of the Grand Canyon.

No, it is not. If the developers are using openSUSE for SUSE OSS and
even for SUSE 10.1 (where there clealy only is just SUSE) means that
their own people inside SUSE/Novell are badly informed about the correct
naming. Being badly informed results to cluelessness. Not by their own
fault, but cluelessness nontheless.

If SUSE developers use openSUSE as a reference towards SUSE, how do you
think other people wll start to use it.
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