Twayne kindly offered: > If you weren't so lazy and could use links, you'd already > know the answer to > your stupid questions. My gosh, you quoted THE post with the > link in it! > > Twayne
Well, your gosh, the third paragraph of the Wikipedia page (other end of that link) says: "The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,[5] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.[6] " ?? The reference [6] that is supposed to validate the wiki statement points to an openoffice.org FAQ: "The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software." In my defense, I speak and write English, natively, and I learned earth-style logic in school, so I see that the second sentence in the FAQ is not a logical consequence (in earth-style logic...) of the first sentence. In earth-style logic, there is no bridge to "you must use '.org' and no other letter-symbol combination among all the billions available". Rather the second sentence can logically state, as a consequence of the first, only "you can't use 'OpenOffice'; you've got to use SOMETHING else." Perhaps in the logic of your planet, or in your native language, a statement that "Somebody else owns A" would imply "Therefore you MUST confine your use to B-and-only-B". In my laziness and stupidity - an assessment that you were so kind as to broadcast publicly - I admit that I have not studied either the logic or the language(s) of your planet of origin. Please accept my humble, lazy, and stupid apologies. - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
