Here, In India it is US $120 - Sharad Kukreti Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:22:42 -0500, Ian Lynch wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 20:16 +0000, jonathon wrote: >> Sharud wrote: >> >> > As it is confusing with name "OpenOffice" , therefore we should raise >> this issue. >> >> It is too late now, but >> * "OpenOffice.org" should have been trademarked in at least every >> major country, prior to being released; >> * "OpenOffice" should have been trademarked in countries in which it >> was not already a trademark; >> * The OOo logos should have been trademarked, prior to release; >> >> I realize that trademark registration is expensive. > > Not that expensive. IIRC it was about £250 ($500) to trademark the > INGOTs and The Learning Machine in the UK. So in the whole scheme of > things trademarking OOo in the G8 countries is a negligible cost > compared to the salaries of the developers, community manager and web > site hosting etc. > >> Without, there >> will eventually come a point where OOo will be legally required >> to/forced to change names, because the usage by OOo is a trademark >> infringement. (What is the current number of countries where the OOo >> L10N team has to use a name other than OOo when distributing it, >> because of the trademark infringement.) >> >> The other option is to rename OOo now, and trademark the new name in >> at least the major countries of the world, prior to the release of the >> new version with the new name. > > Interesting idea. What name would be suitable? Freedom office, perhaps? > or the People's Office? It would also counter MS and its OOXML piracy of > the name. > > Ian In mexico cost also 500 dls. I might do a search just in case (80 dls). -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
