On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2012-03-13 2:28 PM Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Larry Gusaas<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-03-13 2:05 PM Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> We are in our final weeks of testing >>>> and bug fixing for our OpenOffice 3.4 release. >>> >>> I thought the product name was changed to Apache OpenOffice. Shouldn't >>> the >>> release be "Apache OpenOffice 3.4"? >>> Or are you going to use "OpenOffice.org 3.4"? Or, as you stated, >>> "OpenOffice 3.4"? >>> >> Is your legal name really Larry, or something like Lawrence? Does >> your middle initial stand for something, or is it really just "I"? > > > Are you going to answer the question? Or just make totally irrelevant > remarks about my name? >
I thought the point was obvious. Sorry if it was not clear. We have proper names and we have short names. When I make an off-hand mention of "OpenOffice" or even "AOO" that does not imply that I'm making a formal notice of a product renaming. Just as you being called "Larry" does not amount to a legal name change. There is a place for using formal names. When I sign a legal document I am "Robert Cameron Weir". But here I am just Rob Weir. When we mention the product in a formal setting, we will call it "Apache OpenOffice" at the first mention of it on a page or an article or a press release. But subsequent references in the same document may just be called "OpenOffice". Formal names and short names. I'm sure we're all familiar with the concept. -Rob > > > -- > _________________________________ > > Larry I. Gusaas > Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada > Website: http://larry-gusaas.com > "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind > theirs." - Edgard Varese > >
