Re: 10.1 RC1 : install by internet

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:51:42 +0200, houghi wrote:


No, it is not. If the developers are using openSUSE for SUSE OSS

OSS is an acronym for either Open SuSe, or Open Source Suse, (capitals for
emphasis) "Open SuSe" is, at once, a descriptive phrase used to
differentiate the purely GPL version of the Suse OS from the Eval version,
and, especially when spelled as a single word, "Opensuse", also a name in
and of itself.

For native English speakers, there is no confusion in using the two terms,
"OSS" and "Opensuse" interchangeably. Some people like using acronyms for
everything, others think there are too many TLAs, that add confusion, (OSS
can also be "Office of Strategic Services" or "Over-bloated Silly
Software") so would rather use the name itself. Opensuse, as a spelling,
is a made-up word, a contracting/combining of Open SuSe, typical when
creating domain names, or formal names that, within themselves, describe a
given product. As a name, it is more correct to use it as the name of the
OS version that the original descriptive phrase referred to, than the group
of people that work on developing said version, which would more properly
be referred to as the Opensuse group, or Opensuse developers.

You seen to be the only person who insists that when someone says, "I
installed Opensuse..." they are claiming to have installed a group of
people, rather than the OS they are helping to develop. The rest of us
understand that this person installed the Suse operating system, and it
wasn't the Eval version, or the "shrink wrapped" commercial version.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."


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