Re: 10.1 RC1 : install by internet

imotgm wrote:
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,

No, It is not. It stands for Open Source Software. It is a standard that
caused e.g. pine (I think) to be removed from CD1-5, because it was
non-OSS. That last is doen for 10.1.

For native English speakers, there is no confusion in using the two terms,
"OSS" and "Opensuse" interchangeably.

Perhaps not on a language level, but on what you are talking about,
there definetly is. You can interchange a chair and a table as well, and
still they are two differnt objects.

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.

I understand what they are talking about and rectify their mistake. In
effect it is indeed what they are saying. It is just pointing out
peoples mistake, just as I do with people not quoting correctly when
posting with GG.

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.

I know what they mean. That does not make it correct. Because they are
wrong, I think it is only a good thing to correct the mistake.

Now why would this be so impiortand? Because it hinders the develpment
of a larger openSUSE community. Now people might think that being part
of the openSUSE community means also be involved in e.g. development of
SUSE Linux and some people might think they are not technicaly enough
for that. So as I see it, the wrong naming hinders openSUSE growth.

Not only technical people are needed, also web designers, artistic
people and a whole bunch of whatever your qualities are. SUSE Linux is a
main part and only one part of that community.
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Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes
America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
have tolerated the last eight years? -- Frank Zappa, in 1988
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