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It’s become clear to many that Red Hat’s recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it’s fallen from its respected place as “the open organization.” SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat’s errors. We connect the dots.

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[–] scholar@lemmy.world 89 points 4 months ago (20 children)

Also SUSE: OpenSUSE needs to change their name because we say so

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 9 points 4 months ago (9 children)

To be fair, OpenSUSE is the only project with a name like that, so it makes some sense that they'd want it changed.
There's no OpenRedHat, no OpenNovell, no OpenLinspire, etc.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they should go with OpenGecko or OpenChameleon

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago
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