On 09/29/2010 10:45 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> This depends very much on the reaction of Oracle:
>
> If they insist on keeping the trademark given to Sun Microsystems
> because the community hadn't an entity to claim violations and abuse, we
> will not be able to use our good name OpenOffice.org any more.
That would be unfortunate. Changing a name is a big loss of identity
that would take work to recover. On the other hand, LibreOffice does
the advantage that the product name isn't a URL. One poster on ./
quipped that perhaps the new name should be "OpenOffice.org/index.html".
That's harsh, but has a kernel of truth -- who hasn't, at one time or
another, had to waste time explaining the issue with OpenOffice vs.
OpenOffice.org?
Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is
pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is
a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for
everyone to get behind the new name.
----Jon
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