Marko Gronroos wrote:
"Open Office" is apparently a registered trademark in Benelux countries
(Belgia-Netherlands-Luxenburg), owned by V.W.T. Sessink company. See
http://www.openoffice.nl/over_ons/merkenbescherming.html and use BabelFish.
Owning a trademark means that a company has rights on things such as domain
names. For example, V.W.T Sessink has already registered openoffice.nl domain,
and is trying to register openoffice.eu. I don't know anything about the case,
but I'd think that OOo people at Netherlands may not be too happy about the
company.
Well, I do know mr. Sessink. And quite some of the Dutch NL-community
do. He's doing a lot of good for FOSS, so no doubt we áre happy with him.
For the moment the facts are as known.
I do recognise what many others write and see: OpenOffice is widely used
for our office-suite. Both in the media and by (professional) users.
Furthermore that most - and not because a lack of respect - do not care
the .org. The possibilities to stop this trend, are very little.
I have no idea if that will force to talk about a change of the name and
possible consequences.
Best wishes,
Cor
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