To the Italian journalists that drop the "org" (the majority) I always
tell that the "org" is important because it stresses the importance of
the community behind the software, and they will easily understand the
advantage once they write a request for support and receive dozens of
answers by volunteers, just because they know how to do it.
It's even too easy to compare this situation with the call centers of
the software that miss the "org", where you ask the same question to at
least five people before the last one - the only one with neurons in the
head - tells you that they simply don't have an answer, because they can
only solve the problems of people that haven't switched on the PC or
connected the printer.
In Italy, it works. Once they get this explanation (the first part),
they remember to write OpenOffice.org (or OOo, which is a nice - in my
opninion - acronym).
Best, Italo
Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote:
I just got an answer form the Dutch company Open Office stating that it
is correct, that the company owns the trademark "Open Office" in Benelux
(Belgium, the Netherlands and Luzembourg). This probably means the we
cannot use the name "OpenOffice" in these countries since that name is
too similar with "Open Office" - unless, of course, we can somehow make
an agreement with the company.
Anyway, whatever the real reason was for the name, I suggest that we
change the explanation in the FAQ. Right now, the FAQ could easily be
understood like: "We would really have called the product OpenOffice,
but we realized that we couldn't, so unfortunately we had to choose
another name, and we had to hurry and couldn't make up something better
than this". This gives, of course, a very unprofessional impression.
Instead we should state that the name was deliberately chosen for very
intelligent and sophisticated reasons ;-)
Finn
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