[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

The name is the only thing Oracle owns at this moment...
The rest is out there alrready.

What they should do is to donate the trademark to the document foundation
and stop messing around with the thing.

:-O






On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Hillel Lubman <shtetldik at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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