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You cleaver marketer, you!..

I have seen people confuse the term open source an the Novell sponsored Linux distribution open suse on several blogs, and even some popular news sites.

It just struck me how cleaver this name really is! People mean open source but have picked up the name open suse in the news and on the blogosphere.

I do not know whether this is done on purpose or not, but it really is a cleaver marketing scheme non the less! openSUSE really does get a whole lot more exposure due to this terminology/trademark confusion.

Cleaver marketing or stupid confusion? Anyhow, people should get the two terms apart! Because the open suse project Firefox is not quite right…

Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-01-29 at 10:01

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