On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > We are not starting fresh, even if you want to believe we are. > > -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 > > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
