On 11 Jul 2011, at 14:16, Andre Schnabel wrote: > So - if the Apache project does not want to use the brand "OpenOffice.org", > maybe ask Oracle to hand it over to TDF instead. > > Ok, just joking - I would not expect this to happen.
More than that, as far as I can tell TDF are perfectly happy with the brands they are building and have no particular use for the OpenOffice.org trademark - whatever the hidden voices whispering otherwise may say. As I understand it (and I have asked) their proposal to take the trademark on board was a matter of stewardship (with the alternative expected to be abandonment) rather than need. > But anyway - everyone who would say "no" to the idea above, just have a > moment and think about why you would say "no". And then think about why > you should not change the brand. I admit to being disappointed that people feel so negatively actually; I hope it is only a few. I still believe there is scope for the OpenOffice.org community to have an "OpenOffice Community Organisation" under that name that co-ordinates architecture, plugins, templates, security, marketing etc, and then call this project "Apache OpenOffice" etc as a member of that family along with LibreOffice and the proprietary downstreams. S.
