I deny this.
No. That law is the same all over the EU. And the Amrerican + Canadian are not different in this. FWIW, like Henk I am dutch.
You can deny all what you want, I try to explain you how it works in Spanish/Castilian and you reject all I say 
If you ignore how it works in other languages, of course you are extending how it works in English (where there is no ortographical rules).
Wow, is not an English thing, is a Anglo-Saxon thing, congratulations!
Hmmm, probably got something to do with this ?
At least there is a German law related to this.
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I donāt say openSUSE is a illegal trademark. Is right (or it is, when no judge say against that 
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Spanish (Castilian, Galician and others) language has rules about writing. Ortographical correctors (with or without LLM) in Spanish change the first letter on a paragraph as capital. Thatās all.
No matters. My country (Galicia) has its name misspelled (correct is Galiza) for political reasons when Galician Estatuto de AutĆ³nomĆa was approved 
In my smartphone I only see Germany cookies advise.
Rules about writing are one thing but here a small example from the real world what can happen to you if you āmiss-spellā a famouse trademark.
teakers.net is the biggest dutch tech site, laughing my socks of:
Well, auto-correction does not care about trademarks ā¦
@hui
Thanks for this page (i have so many to learn !)
The comment was unfortunately cut out from the other thread where it belongs. Good you still found it.
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It really isnāt a question of language. Itās a question of cultural traditions. And a new business creates its own traditions on how to use its name.
Yes, there is a competing tradition, that the first word in sentence should begin with an upper-case letter. Thatās why you will sometimes see āOpenSUSEā at the start of a sentence.
I just take it all in stride, and donāt get too concerned about it.
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And the relation isā¦?
Waouh !!!
Je ne māattendais pas Ć une guerre de tranchĆ©e sur un sujet aussi anodin.
Jāessayais simplement de dire que :
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en France, les noms propres commencent par une majuscule.
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en Allemagne, tous les noms commencent par une majuscule.
Pour moi, mettre une majuscule est un rƩflexe.
MĆŖme si je vois une bonne humeur dans vos posts, je māĆ©tonne de la vague que jāai produite.
Jāutiliserai dĆ©sormais Tumbleweed (qui a une majuscule !)
In English (translated by DeepL, like all my previous posts):
Wow!!!
I didnāt expect such a heated debate over such a trivial topic.
I was simply trying to say that:
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In France, proper nouns start with a capital letter.
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In Germany, all nouns start with a capital letter.
For me, capitalizing is second nature.
Even though I can tell youāre all in good spirits in your posts, Iām surprised by the stir Iāve caused.
From now on, Iāll use Tumbleweed (which starts with a capital letter!). 
Some languages has old institutions working in this entire thing. Rules.
Of course, nobody will go to your home to take you to prison for misspellingā¦ Or for write ipod or eBay, Ipod, Ebay or even IPOD or EBAY.
But in this thread we see some āwarningsā, āadvisesā or whatever you call it, because āfor de Lord Monesvol, how dare you write āOpenSUSEāā.
I only said that is a bad name for that and others reasons (can we talk about SUSE is an open source firm, what is the meaning of open SUSE then? So we are part of SUSE?). I always use openSUSE but even then I only received nonsense stuff ignoring Spanish and others particulars. āOh, in Canada is what USA saysā.
Keep calm. openSUSE project is good even if tomorrow changes the name (and there is a lot o reasons to do it, we had talk a lot about that in the past).
Change the name?
Hmm, back then, Iād installed SUSE!
Then SUSE was taken over by (?) and at that point, I was elsewhere.
SUSE was already open-source, and now openSUSE still is.
SUSE was known for its robustness but also for its complexity (too much for me, and back then there wasnāt the brilliant forum that this one is).
Iāve never understood the need to change the name.
For the record, I used to work at CALBERSON: a name that was extremely well-known and a real sales driver.
I never understood why it was changed to GEODIS.
Is it better today with a new name?
I donāt think so: openSUSE is now well-known and recognised; with a new name, weāll have to start all over again to make ourselves known and recognised.
I donāt think I have ever made a fuss about that.
Today, I did see someone use āSuSE Tumbleweedā, and perhaps that needs correcting. But ācorrectingā the capitalization seems much ado about nothing.
Iāll note that the system uses a directory ā/boot/efi/EFI/opensuseā. It does not name it ā/boot/efi/EFI/openSUSEā. I just take it all as a matter of course, and donāt get upset about it.
Karl, I get your point and to be fair, you are right, and yes, this was already brought up in 2005, but it did happen. I just found out that even the style guides of some newspapers over here differ, not about middle of sentence ( use Trademark writing as is ), but they do about capitalization of 1st char of a sentence. When the first oSC had the talk + discussion about the name change, I argued that if we change the name, then please to something that doesnāt bring in a new version of this issue.
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My first work with Linux was with SLS, then Slackware. (geez, so long ago!).
My first exposure to SUSE was āS.u.S.E Linux 4.2ā (1996?). It was later changed to āSuSEā. I described installing āSuSE Linux 6.1ā in a book. Then later name was changed to āSUSEā.
Anyone remember when it was āS.u.S.Eā?
I guess thatās easier than writing āGesellschaft fĆ¼r Software - und Systementwicklungā 
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For S.u.S.E, you have this : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_S.A.
Iām on Linux since 2001 : my first Linux was Mandrake 8.1. Bad, only kernel panic after install. Was better with 8.2
I have used SuSe in the year 2005 (?) but it was to heavy for me