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Red Hat's war on RHEL
Red Hat's war on RHEL
Posted Mar 6, 2008 23:16 UTC (Thu) by dreadnought (subscriber, #27222)Parent article: Red Hat's war on RHEL
Ah ha ha ha. Whatever. I've heard it pronouced "rhail" and have been pronouncing it "our hell" for sometime now. Personally I like the RHEL abbrv as its less to type(tm).
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If history is any indicator... (Heading off-topic)
Posted Mar 7, 2008 0:12 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
Perhaps Red Hat is protecting their brand name product from becoming "Our Hell." After all, some may remember how incredibly easily (and quickly) TRS-80 morphed into "Trash-80." Radio Shack/Tandy Corp. had to live that one down for years!
Seven (or nine, or ten) syllables is still a lot to say or write. But, I just noticed that "Microsoft Windows Vista" also weighs in with seven, until you add a version name like "Home Premium" for another four syllables (eleven total).
Even further off-topic: I was rudely corrected by a Mac enthusiast for calling OS X, "Oh Es Ex." He insisted that under no circumstances was Apple's OS to be called anything other than "Oh Es Ten." Oh well...