On Mon, March 9, 2009 12:01, James Walker wrote: > I just want to ask, what is behind all of this lately, it seems like we > are > going to have to start defending OO.o. I have been around the project > since > before version 1 and aside from someone having a copyright on OpenOffice > for > office furniture or something, have not seen us have to defend it like > this > before.
When Sun created the project at the start of the millennium, it was a bit lax about securing trademarks internationally. This has caused us grief from time to time, e.g. in Brazil. I think this latest activity is a recognition that Sun realises it now has a valuable brand and is taking active steps to secure it. I'm getting these questions from the legal team who are helping Sun whenever they run into problems with national authorities. I'd like to thank you all for your help so far - there may be more requests in the pipeline. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
