Great. I just trained my teachers that NeoOffice is now OpenOffice in two
buildings, and in the third they're bitching because OpenOffice is not
Microsoft Office.
Pretty soon I'm just going to start handing them Etch-a-Sketches and be done
with it.
Mike
On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:17 AM, William M. Bell wrote:
> I’m not sure if it’s really a competitor...maybe a name change?
>
> Q: Why are you calling yourselves "The Document Foundation"?
> A: For ten years we have used the same name - "OpenOffice.org" - for both the
> Community and the software. We've decided it removes ambiguity to have a
> different name for the two, so the Community is now "The Document
> Foundation", and the software "LibreOffice".
>
> Q: And why are you calling the software "LibreOffice" instead of
> "OpenOffice.org"?
> A: The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation. Our hope is
> that Oracle will donate this to to the Foundation, along with the other
> assets it holds in trust for the Community, in due course, once legal etc
> issues are resolved. However, we need to continue work in the meantime -
> hence "LibreOffice" ("free office").
>
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> On 9/28/10 7:45 AM, "Paul welte" <pwe...@nashville-k12.org> wrote:
>
>> With Oracle's acquisition of Sun, it looks like there may be some changes,
>> or at least another competitor, to OpenOffice:
>>
>> http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/407383/
>>
>> <http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/>
>>
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