The .org is there for legal reasons (the trademark OpenOffice is owned by
another party). In any case, I like the ".org" -- the first time I heard
about OpenOffice.org (and that was a long time ago), I knew exactly where to
go. People still use "OpenOffice" in speech, just officially, Oracle can't.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Ben Pracht <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's something that's bothered me since I started using OpenOffice which
> I wish also got changed, which was the use of OOo or appending .org at the
> end of it.  The first one reminds me of the acronym for Out of Office, or
> some sort of impolite personal accident.  Appending .org seems superfluous.
> It's also easier to roll off your tongue if you can just say OpenOffice or
> something like that.  I'd suggest the next time branding issues come up in
> a
> somewhat major way to take up investigating this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christoph Noack <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Sophie, hi Miroslav!
> >
> > Miroslav, you asked for the colors in the ODF icons. As I understood
> > Sophie, there might be a chance to improve the usability and branding of
> > the currently ODF-only icons. Personally, I don't know ... there have
> > been many questions, but no real comment by one of the team members. So
> > if this is important to you (as it is to me), please follow Sophie's
> > hint to join the branding effort and help us to drive that topic.
> >
> > In the meantime, there has been a request by Bernhard to the Community
> > Council. He asks why there hasn't been any community involvement with
> > regard to the ODF icons ... currently there are (slow) discussions going
> > on. [1]
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Agenda
> > (2010-04-29#2<
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Agenda%0A%282010-04-29#2>Missing
> OOo desktop presence)
> >
> > Am Dienstag, den 18.05.2010, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sophie:
> > > Hi Miroslav,
> > > Miroslav Mazel wrote:
> > > > We've been discussing the omission of color pretty thoroughly since
> > > the OOo
> > > > branding was changed, but it seems that it lead to... nothing. Is
> > > the lack
> > > > of color in application icons and file icons final? Could we have an
> > > > official vote on this?
> > >
> > > This is not final and if you want to follow/help on this, the
> > > discussions happen on the branding list
> > [...]
> >
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