On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Andre Schnabel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Von: Javier Sola <[email protected]> > >> >> This product competes with another one whose main disadvantage is not >> having the name OpenOffice.org, and who is already producing working >> software, more advanced that this project at this time, and getting the >> favor of some distributions. > > So - if the Apache project does not want to use the brand "OpenOffice.org", > maybe ask Oracle to hand it over to TDF instead. >
Do you know, was LibreOffice.org ever considered as a name? If not, why not? Did the portion of the OOo community that left for LO not believe that symbolism of ".org" was useful for branding? >From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. -Rob > Ok, just joking - I would not expect this to happen. > > 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. > > regards, > > André >
