Breaking: The openSUSE Board discusses SUSE's request to stop using its brand, highlighting the need for cooperation and goodwill.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37281970

Believe it or not, an unexpected conflict has arisen in the openSUSE community with its long-time supporter and namesake, the SUSE company.

At the heart of this tension lies a quiet request that has stirred not-so-quiet ripples across the open source landscape: SUSE has formally asked openSUSE to discontinue using its brand name.

Richard Brown, a key figure within the openSUSE project, shared insights into the discussions that have unfolded behind closed doors.

Despite SUSE’s request’s calm and respectful tone, the implications of not meeting it could be far-reaching, threatening the symbiotic relationship that has benefited both entities over the years.

  • HubertManne
    42•2 months ago

    wow. I had a good opinion of suse up to this point. what a silly request after all these years.

    • @visor841
      6•2 months ago

      From my own looking into this it looks like more of a suggestion than a request (for now at least), just a “this might be a good idea, we should look into it”.

      • HubertManne
        10•2 months ago

        I just don’t get what they are thinking. opensuse is basically free advertising for them.

        • @[email protected]
          4•2 months ago

          Yea, I only know suse from opensuse and of my company ever needs Linux support, I would go to suse because I know it from openSuse…

          And I would love to work for suse because I had such a good experience with openSuse

          I think a name change would be pretty dump…

          • HubertManne
            3•2 months ago

            this is how I feel. If I am involved in work decisions I will recommend the enterprise version because the support just makes sense and is incredibly cheap vs most software. It actually took me awhile to understand the whole fedora, centos, redhat connection.

      • @ozymandias117English
        3•2 months ago

        It’s a strange suggestion after very recently working closely with openSUSE to ensure Leap can use the same binaries as SLE, though

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 months ago

      Strange is using and marketing someone else’s name without written permission.

      Why do you think linux distros and free software have such strange names? To avoid stepping on someone toes without expensive trademark research.