Don't forget about LST:
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The History of S.u.S.E
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#12I worked there for more than a decade, and I can never highlight enough:
- How great the place was for those involved in the open-source ecosystem
- How great Novell and Attachmate were as owners
The company had, like many others, good and tough times, but the people were very passionate about it.
I will never stop feeling lucky for it being part of me for so many years.
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#13Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
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#14Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
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#15Wow, the mention of SLS takes me back. SLS was the first Linux distribution I ever used. (Not counting the very early days of manually extracting tar archives of userspace binaries to make a system...) I remember passing around the precious shoebox of SLS floppies from person to person in high school. :)
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#16IMHO, Deutsche Linux-Distribution (DLD) was the first german linux distribution (first release in 1992).
So it's not just a meme that Germans like to put "Deutsche" in front of every product/company name, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
I mean, Americans put "National" in front of everything. At least the German version suggests some level of awareness of a world beyond the borders.
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#17Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
Similar: CoDeSys (Controller Development System). They also decided to leave the original meaning behind and rebranded to the all-caps CODESYS.
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#18Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
> Software- und System-Entwicklung
Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
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#19Why is it written as an initialism as if you would pronounce each letter individually? At least for English speakers, that's not the way, right?
The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)
Yeah but do they say "ess oo ess ee" or "suess"?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's not just a meme that Germans like to put "Deutsche" in front of every product/company name, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
I mean, Americans put "National" in front of everything. At least the German version suggests some level of awareness of a world beyond the borders.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.