I don't know where this fits in this thread, if anywhere, but I can't resist.
1. When I first saw the name, White Label Office, what came to mind was "generic" office. There was a brief time when generic (and bulk) branding of staples became the rage in supermarkets. The typical white-label package was that - a simple white label on the tin, with the name of the product without any brand (e.g., "frozen peas" and "tomato paste"). 2. I then wondered if "white label" had some other, independent significance. Indeed it does: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product>. And here too: <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/white_label>. Oddly, the English phrase is apparently used in German as well. I don't think the association with bootleg music is intended though. I will have to install the German-language version of the release just to see how the identifier is used within the TOOo release. - Dennis PS: I presume this is an LGPL release too. If so, it should show up in the installer. -----Original Message----- From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 18:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Team OpenOffice White Label Office (powered by Apache Open Office) [ ... ] I'm not sure I'd use terms like "false" in this context. But I do agree (and am glad to see a specific user experience like this) that the TOO messaging and press around the White Label Office, when taken as a whole, is clearly confusing to users. [ ... ] I presume (but have not verified) that TOO has taken the original GPL\LGPL licensed code from the earlier Sun/Oracle repositories and used that for their White Label Office. [ ... ]
