On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Tobias Welz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > out of curiosity: why is LibreOffice a failure of name change.
To keep the Libreoffice/openoffice story short, IBM did not want to let Openoffice die, they were some talks behind the scenes to donate the OpenOffice project to LibreOffice foundation, but at the end, IBM prefered to leave it (dying) in the Apache Foundation, which they probably had some control on. > Other projects did that as well - The team (all - beside the owner AFAIK) of > OpenElec made a new fork LibreElec. Companies do this also rename products > from time to time, maybe you remember old times a famous snack in germany > became renamed "Raider heißt jetzt Twix". (Raider is now called Twix). Or > another example from industry: "Daewoo" spent a lot of money to establish > the brand "Daewoo" in Germany. Anyway GM wiped out the brand name and just > replaced it with "Chevrolet". > > I also like the well known name "OpenWrt" - I used it for a long time since > "white russian" - anyway i don't mind new freshness like with LEDE. As long > as people get the name change as some kind of "evolution" it's not > necessarily a bad thing to take,e.g., LEDE. > > People will also still call the project "OpenWrt" even it has another name > - others will still know that is meant - it's the same thing. > > The only bad thing is having two projects in parallel (OpenElec / LibreElec) > and people don't realize that there is something "new". At the end, it is all about control and power. Concerning the release cycle, I was thinking of snapshoting trunk every month, since the release cycle of openwrt is way too low compared to the life cycle of the hardware (certain hardware revisions lives on the shelf for 6 months and you can't find them anymore). As of LEDE, there is no release yet :-) Best, -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-3500762 "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or democratically elected legislators." _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
