My thoughts here may be a little superfluous, given the previous debate - The dot org extension is in my view not going to help us portray a mainstream product. When the project started off it was a completely different proposition - we are now in the territory where not just OOo but mozilla, firefox and so on are achieving phenomenal success and market penetration. And certainly OOo is way beyond what anyone expected at the outset - in quality and adoption.
I think the dot org is going to hinder wider success as what people call something does matter and having something easy on the tongue is important (a lot of the spreading should be by word of mouth and saying OOo is hard especially for the non-technical people we are now trying to reach) and making it look specialised and out of reach for the non-initiated. I note some of the suggestions given as a way forward which are good and would also suggest: 1. OpenOffice.org as the project with OpenDocument and OpenOffice/OpenOffice Suite as its products. Our information would then routinely include reference to OOo with the dot org as the open source community responsible for producing open document and open office with the easy web reference included 2.As many countries as possible using OpenOffice or some such equivalent (libra/libre...) 3.If the above aren't possible, then certainly shading out and de-emphasising the dot org by other means will help (but it will still end up with people saying OO without the dot org - if that's what we want to happen we should encourage it by more direct routes) Just a few thoughts Craig On Monday 12 Dec 2005 12:18, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Alex Fisher wrote: > > Further checks indicate that registering OpenOffice in the EU, USA and a > > couple of other countries would cost over $6000 Australian... The cost far > > outweighs any benefit... > > Perhaps, but registering with the .org won't be any cheaper. I think we > should just switch to the name "OpenOffice" and register tne name in > only one country (e.g. UK). > > > In the interim, I > > guess there is nothing to stop us using just plain OpenOffice. Certainly if > > we do, it would make it much harder for anyone to register it at a future > > date. > > I concur. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > -- > /\/`) http://oooauthors.org > /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org > /\/_/ > \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. > / > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
