On 20 October 2011 19:29, Wolf Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, TJ Frazier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/18/2011 18:53, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 10/18/2011 02:58 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> > > <massive snippery> > > > > <snip-ectomy> > >>> > >> > Why not have both Apache Open Office > and OpenOffice.org? > > 1) We already have both and people are getting used to that who are liable > to do so. > 2) Other brands have started using other names for themselves and for their > products without much confusion. Daimler Chrysler Dodge Ram? All brand > names for pickup trucks, which have almost no name at all (1500, 2500, > 3500). This is an egregious example of a messy name that consumers have no > troub;le sorting out.
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