Hello all, I'm afraid that although we're still waiting for Oracle's position on the trademark, we already have had a full competition and vote on the name. And we also found out, that names are never a very consensual thing. So we'll stick to this one, unless Oracle agrees to give the trademark...
Best, Charles. 2010/10/2 Claus Agerskov <c...@agercon.dk> > Hi all > > I don't like the name LibreOffice. > > But I don't think the time is right for a new name yet. > > The community behind the office suite have to be established both > concerning the existing office suites based on OpenOffice.org - do they > become a part of this or will the be on the sideline. And concerning which > kind of organisation it will become. > > Oracle has not stated if they will give the rights to the name > OpenOffice.org to us so the name could be kept - or we really have to > continue with LibreOffice or find a new name. > > If the work on a new name should be started then we have to set up a list > of guidelines for such name - and keep the work on the new name on a closed > mailing list so others wont registrate the name and domain names before we > had the time to do it ourselves. > > And open competition to get more name suggestions from everyone could still > be in the open - but not the work on selecting the name. > > I would be interested to be in such a workgroup. > > The most enjoyable greetings > > -- > .: Claus Agerskov :: c...@agercon.dk :: +45 27 59 69 96 :. > .: Robinievej 129 :: DK-2620 Albertslund :. > .: AgerCon :: www.agercon.dk :. > .: FOSS consulting, speeches and teaching :. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bunsubscr...@documentfoundation.org> > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted. > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > > -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
