Open Letter to the openSUSE Board, Project and Community (Final) - openSUSE Project
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Dear all, Let me first define a couple of things that the community is being faced with: - Our current governance is not working. With the things we're facing and the current model / Board rules……

Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    4 months ago

    I started trying to read through the thread, but there’s clearly a lot of context that I don’t have. Is anyone able to give a brief summary that would explain what this is all about?

    • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      After years of support and collaboration, SUSE asked OpenSUSE to drop “SUSE” - their [SUSE] branding - from their [OpneSUSE] name.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        4 months ago

        What was the reason they don’t want to be associated anymore? Did Open SUSE do something to tarnish their reputation?

        • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          I haven’t seen information on that. Only speculations in comments here on Lemmy. I didn’t and don’t follow SUSE or this news closely though.

          A commenter mentioned how SUSE has core business in hosting and business environment, while OpenSUSE userbase is more desktop and [non-paying?] end-user.

          There wasn’t (to me anyway) strong arguments for why they do. Maybe they just want to get rid of the investment, and don’t see enough gain in the good publicity and it as an entry point to them anymore.