[Gllug] Pronunciation of SuSE?

[Roger Whittaker]

Personally, when asked, I always say:
"We don't care how you say it, we just hope you'll use it."

It stands for

Software und Systems Entwicklung (Software and System Development).

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Jake Jellinek wrote:

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> --On 27 May 2002 19:17 +0100 Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> > But I don't think they are fanatics about this.
> >
>
> I'm not so sure, my good friend & business partner Mr Nick Mailer (who can
> probably provide more detail than I can on the story) once asked a question
> about Software RAID inclusion (or reasons for lack of) in SuSE at a
> developers conference, mis-pronouncing SuSE as "Sooz". The SuSE chap
> answering (as I say, I don't have all the details as to who it was exactly
> etc.) was most upset, and would not answer the question, demanding that
> Nick repeat after him, "soos-ZA,... soos-ZA as in sousaphone, repeat after
> me now, soos-ZA".
>
> It certainly made sure he never mispronounced it again :)
>
> Jake.
>
> > --
> > Bruce
> >
> > Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
>
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Roger Whittaker
SuSE Linux Ltd
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