Hi, 2011/7/12 Pedro F. Giffuni <[email protected]>
> > > --- On Tue, 7/12/11, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: > ,,, > > > > All this under the OpenOffice.org Brand. There has > > been a lot of noise around LibreOffice with those > > Linux Distributions who used Go-OOo now distributing > > with LO, but those numbers, compared to OOo across all > > platforms are miniscule and I believe that will remain the > > same unless of course this stalling of development, forced > > on us by Oracle, continues or the brand is modified > > violently so that we have re-establish our brand right > > from the beginning. In our consumer market tacking Apache > > on the end would do just this. > > I don't think anyone will argue against keeping the > "OpenOffice.org" product name, Apache owns the trademark and > it has a value we want to preserve. > > The discussion is around the Project name: > > I strongly lean towards "Apache OpenOffice" because: > +1 > > - Removing the .org is not a violent rebranding: people already > refer to "OpenOffice.org" simply as "OpenOffice": look for > OpenOffice on Google and you will find only OpenOffice.org. > - Apache already has a .org in it's domain name. > - Apache does add value to the name, even if it's likely to > be known only by web administrators and developers. > > No matter what you decide, I think it's likely the end user will > drop the .org and the Apache and just say "OpenOffice" to both > the product and the project. > > Here in Brazil went through it. We remove the ".org" leaving only BrOffice . And we're still living with two names/brands: BrOffice and LibreOffice ( although the same products). Not to mention users of OpenOffice.org. Rgds, Luiz
