Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-07 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-06 22:56, Scott Furry a écrit : On 06/10/10 08:19 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 19:59 -0600, Scott Furry wrote: [snip] I thought the original suggestion was a very funny joke and did not take it seriously, and I thought the comments by Marc were in the same

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-07 Thread jonathon
On 10/07/2010 12:50 AM, Paul A Norman wrote: Design: 'The Office Liberaton Front :) I read that as Office Liberation Font. [It is a toss up as to which font is worse: Office Liberation or Microsoft Comic Sans.] jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-06 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/04/2010 05:56 PM, jonathon wrote: On 10/03/2010 07:15 PM, Lane Lester wrote: The fact that people are proposing making audio files available so people will know how to pronounce the name is a great illustration of how bad the name is. Americans suffer from this disease known as acute

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2010-10-05 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 16:15 -0400, Steven Shelton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/5/2010 10:16 AM, Drew Jensen wrote: Oh Dude - you so funny... I don't understand what that means. *ducks* Yo Steven, I believe that in this instance you are using the word

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-04 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Varun, *, Varun Mittal schrieb: I have been reading the arguments and come to a simple suggestion. Lets create a poll( a lot of free sites, out there), and let everyone vote. We can list all the suggested names and whichever is preferred by community be acceptable I'm not amused to see

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-04 Thread Jon Hamkins
Let me second that libreoffice is a really poor choice, for all the reasons Graham enumerates. Also, libre is not a word that means anything to most English-only speakers, and its pronunciation is the same as Libra, the astrology sign. Libreoffice is difficult to pronounce, and difficult to

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-04 Thread paul . hermeneutic
Libre is an excellent choice. It is much more than just free of cost; it means free of restrictions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-04 Thread paul . hermeneutic
Libre is an excellent choice. Most people in the world are not native English speakers. There will be few problems understanding LibreOffice. It is likely to be more universally understood than OpenOffice. -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au wrote: On 03/10/10 12:00, Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Ron Houserho...@smartchat.net.au wrote: Names are a hard thing, but one lesson I have learned in 30 years of software development is: for widespread

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 15:00:04 Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au wrote: From: Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 6:35 PM On 02

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Michèle Garoche
On 3 oct. 10, at 08:21, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 15:00:04 Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au wrote: From: Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Michèle Garoche
On 3 oct. 10, at 12:09, Michèle Garoche wrote: On 3 oct. 10, at 11:44, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-10-03 05:39, Michèle Garoche a écrit : On 3 oct. 10, at 10:28, Marc Paré wrote: And there you have the problem: You have to explain it. Good marketing requires that you engage with

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 20:55:11 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 19:21 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: Antonio, You in fact wear the best argument for a unique name in your sig. Who is arguably the most successful Open Source company: Red Hat What in gods name does a Red Hat

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Olav Dahlum
On 03/10/10 08:21, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 15:00:04 Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au wrote: From: Ron House rho...@smartchat.net.au Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-03 Thread Benjamin Horst
Cuba Libre came to my mind too. I think that's well-enough known among Americans (in the USA) that it might be useful when explaining LibreOffice to them in the future. Perhaps it will become a tradition to drink such cocktails at informal meetings of LibreOffice volunteers in the future:

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

2010-10-02 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Bernhard, 2010/10/2 Dr. Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at Hi Mirek, all, Mirek Mazel wrote: Hi everyone, I'm really excited about the project, but I'm a bit concerned about the name. What concerns me is that one can't tell how to pronounce the name. Some pronounce it