--- On Thu, 11/10/11, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS]+[VOTE] Trademark and Branding > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 1:26 AM > On 2011-11-09 10:11 PM, Pedro Giffuni > wrote: > > Hi Shane; > > > > OpenOffice.org is a brand the ASF owns now and I > > don't want it diluted. I have also heard the name > > is in some countries' legislation. > > I'm not following your point here. The project > branding requirements > mean that both the product and project names must start > with "Apache > ...", so just "OpenOffice.org" is not an option as either > name. > Again I meant "Apache OpenOffice.org" for the product, which preserves the OpenOffice.org. > The existing trademark registration is not an issue (or, > should not be, > in my opinion) in terms of choosing a name for the project > going > forward. I suggest that the PPMC needs to primarily > think of what the future branding will be. > And I don't object option (b) either way. > In terms of "keeping" the existing registration, I would > not worry about > that now. My current thinking is that our keeping the > domain name as a > site that still distributes the past OpenOffice.org builds > will be more > than sufficient to defend that brand as long as will be > pertinent for > this project. > That's OK then, let's see how the vote evolves. :) Pedro.
