Pedro, The history told in Brazil for many users is: BrOffice changed its name to LibreOffice.
So, the damage is already done and we'll need to start almost from the scratch with Apache OpenOffice. If we insist to use the old BrOffice brand, probably we'll just put more noise on the market. Best, Jomar -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:59:25 To: <ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org> Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: What about BrOffice? --- Lun 28/11/11, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> ha scritto: .. > > > - Are we (AOO) allowed to carry BrOffice branding > stuff > > in our repository at all? > > Why would we want to do that? > I don't know.. you brought it in ;) : http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/instsetoo_native/inc_broffice/ I do think we want to be Apache OpenOffice in Brazil too, despite the fact OpenOffice.org was relatively unknown there. I just wanted to be sure I can dispose of the old BrOffice logos and stuff. > Is there a problem with just having a Brazilian > Portuguese release of Apache OpenOffice using the > name "Apache OpenOffice"? That would be the > simplest thing to do. We will lose many users but I think they are already "lost" anyways. Pedro.
