[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz
<gabriel.delacruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oracle owns much more than the name, just because it's GPL or whatever
does not mean you can do whatever you want with it. you can certainly
fork it as has been done but the license has to be respected.
Trademarks have value, how could oracle's management justify letting
that go to their shareholders and avoid being sued in the process?

nacho
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
>> OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
>>
> _______________________________________________
> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
>