On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:04 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 1/6/12 12:43 PM, eric b wrote: >> Hi Jürgen, >> >> >> Le 6 janv. 12 à 12:18, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit : >> >>> On 1/6/12 11:54 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: >>>> Ah, found another one: >>>> >>>> Synaptic on Ubuntu 11.10 has a package "openoffice.org" which installs >>>> LibreOffice. It is not installed by default (the "libreoffice" package >>>> is) and also provides the 'explanation' >>>> >>>> <quote> >>>> This is a transitional package, replacing the OpenOffice.org packaging >>>> with the LibreOffice packaging. >>>> >>>> It can be safely removed after an upgrade. >>>> </quote> >>>> >>>> but still, is this OK? >>> >>> it sounds strange and not really ok for me. >> >> >> Same for me. >> >> >>> First they could still support older versions of OOo and second we >>> would probably like to reserve this package name for an upgrade to AOO >>> if possible at a later time. >>> >>> I hope we can find some support for this later. But using the name and >>> installing something different is of course confusing and misleading, >>> isn't it? >>> >> >> >> I'm complaining about that since several month (e.g. on this list 23 >> november 11h19). Glad to see I'm not the only one now. > > I would assume that hey have done it without a hidden agenda and thought it > would be ok ;-) > > I don't want or better I don't think that it make sense if we make a big > issue out of this. > > I think we want have a good relation to them and we should potentially send a > friendly reminder that we see a problem here. > > As a user I would expect that I get the latest OOo 3.3 version. And in the > future we would like to use it to get an AOO with some explanation. > > Any other opinions?
No wonder people are confused about openoffice.org. We have to protect the openoffice.org brand. Regards, Dave > > Juergen >
