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The original name of the company was S.u.S.E. with the dots. "Software- und System-Entwicklung" (Software and system development)

Tomte 2y ago
Similar: CoDeSys (Controller Development System). They also decided to leave the original meaning behind and rebranded to the all-caps CODESYS.
skrebbel 2y ago
> Software- und System-Entwicklung Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"
- omnibrain 2y ago
  Well, SAP initially stood for "Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung".
- BSDobelix 2y ago
  Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)
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  - aleph_minus_one 2y ago
    > Like OpenAI About "Course of Theoretical Physics" by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics it is said (also quoted on the Wikipedia page): "not a word of Landau and not a thought of Lifshitz". Similarly, one could say that OpenAI is named this way because it's neither open nor intelligent.
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  - The_Colonel 2y ago
    Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
    - BSDobelix 2y ago
      Microsoft is a least correct but: OpenAI = Not Open IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC). Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)
      - dessimus 2y ago
        TBF, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company became IBM in the 1920's when they were selling punch card machines to businesses and governments around the world, including the Nazis thru their German subsidiary, Hollerith.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company" ... or naming your boring company "The Boring Company".
- johannes1234321 2y ago
  Or a company for developing software for microcomputers Microsoft?
jeffbee 2y ago
Yeah but do they say "ess oo ess ee" or "suess"?
- Tomte 2y ago
  Soo-seh. Like the women‘s name.
  - lproven 2y ago
    Er... there is no woman's name that sounds like that. In English, it's "SOO-zuh" or "SOO-se" if the speaker isn't native and doesn't turn final vowel sounds into schwa like most natives tend to. In German, it's "ZOO-ze" /ˈsuːzə/ It is not Susie, or Suzy, or Sooz, or anything like that, and that pronunciation tends to annoy the company. Souce: me; I worked there for 4 years. The company has Youtube videos on how to pronounce it, and even a song making fun of people getting it wrong. Think of the American march composer John Philip Sousa. Like that. As in the musical instrument the sousaphone.
    - Tomte 2y ago
      I‘m German, I know the pronunciation, thank you very much! And we Germans do turn the latter syllable into a schwa.
      - lproven 2y ago
        :-D
- bregma 2y ago
  "soo zuh"

Tomte 2y ago

Similar: CoDeSys (Controller Development System). They also decided to leave the original meaning behind and rebranded to the all-caps CODESYS.

skrebbel 2y ago

> Software- und System-Entwicklung Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company"

omnibrain 2y ago
Well, SAP initially stood for "Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung".
BSDobelix 2y ago
Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)
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- aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > Like OpenAI About "Course of Theoretical Physics" by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics it is said (also quoted on the Wikipedia page): "not a word of Landau and not a thought of Lifshitz". Similarly, one could say that OpenAI is named this way because it's neither open nor intelligent.
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  [deleted]
- The_Colonel 2y ago
  Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
  - BSDobelix 2y ago
    Microsoft is a least correct but: OpenAI = Not Open IBM = International Business Machines with NON international character encoding (EBCDIC). Oracle = NOT what you want from a database nor from a CIA project ;)
    - dessimus 2y ago
      TBF, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company became IBM in the 1920's when they were selling punch card machines to businesses and governments around the world, including the Nazis thru their German subsidiary, Hollerith.
aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> Wow that's like naming your cleaning company "Cleaning Company" ... or naming your boring company "The Boring Company".
johannes1234321 2y ago
Or a company for developing software for microcomputers Microsoft?

jeffbee 2y ago

Yeah but do they say "ess oo ess ee" or "suess"?

Tomte 2y ago
Soo-seh. Like the women‘s name.
- lproven 2y ago
  Er... there is no woman's name that sounds like that. In English, it's "SOO-zuh" or "SOO-se" if the speaker isn't native and doesn't turn final vowel sounds into schwa like most natives tend to. In German, it's "ZOO-ze" /ˈsuːzə/ It is not Susie, or Suzy, or Sooz, or anything like that, and that pronunciation tends to annoy the company. Souce: me; I worked there for 4 years. The company has Youtube videos on how to pronounce it, and even a song making fun of people getting it wrong. Think of the American march composer John Philip Sousa. Like that. As in the musical instrument the sousaphone.
  - Tomte 2y ago
    I‘m German, I know the pronunciation, thank you very much! And we Germans do turn the latter syllable into a schwa.
    - lproven 2y ago
      :-D
bregma 2y ago
"soo zuh"