In news:[email protected],
Tanstaafl <[email protected]> typed:
On 2010-01-19, McLauchlan, Kevin ([email protected])
wrote:
Why anybody ever thought it was smart to tack that ".org"
onto the end of "OpenOffice" as part of the APPLICATION
name, I'll never understand.
It wasn't because they were trying to be cute, it's because they
*couldn't* use the name 'OpenOffice', because someone else has it
trademarked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
Wow, apparently it's been a LOT longer since I read wikipedia's OO.o et al
pages! I felt sure I was going to recognize most everything I saw there;
NOPE!
That's an excellent, well written bit of information!
I even learned something: I wasn't aware of the Basic tie-ins; just never
looked for/at them. Guess I will now; Shoulda known, I guess.
Thanks for the reminder!
Twayne
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