[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

Hillel Lubman shtetldik at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 15:25:03 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:42 +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote:I'm of the opinion
> that LibreOffice would be taking a
> step backwards if it took on the Openoffice name.  Folks know that
> LibreOffice is the path for future.  The LibreOffice name is also, imo,
> more enticing to me as end user - especially in this day and age of
> "fake bake" corporate "open source" projects.
>

It's the matter of taste of course, but for me OpenOffice sounds better.
Plus that name is established already, while most users never even heard of
LibreOffice before. So if LibreOffice / OpenOffice can join back under
OpenOffice name now, it'll only benefit the project in general  IMO.

Hillel.


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