Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4
According to this link, the reason for ".org" is that "OpenOffice" is a
trademark registered by "someone else". But in one of the earlier
discussions of ".org" on this list, it occurred that nobody on the list
had any factual knowledge about this.
I checked this last year and "OpenOffice" was not owned at least in the
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. In most cases it had
never been owned. In one case it was once owned by the trademark had
expired and hadn't been renewed.
Furthermore, someone mentioned
that the real reason for ".org" was that when the project was started,
someone at Sun though that "OpenOffice.org" simply sounded cooler than
just "OpenOffice".
That seems a more likely scenario. A problem with the "OpenOffice is
owned" theory is the supposition that saying "OpenOffice.org" fixes the
problem. If Lindows can breach the trademark over Windows, I would
expect OpenOffice.org to breach a trademark over OpenOffice.
I suggest we investigate a bit further in this. If it's true that there
aren't really any trademark issues, at least the FAQ should be corrected.
I've investigated and I can't find anyone who owns the name "OpenOffice"
anywhere. Of course, it might be owned in another country that I didn't
check. But if we're going to claim that its owned, we have to know of at
least one country where it is owned, otherwise we're making stuff up. If
anyone knows of any country where it is owned, they should add it to the
FAQ; if no one does, the FAQ should be removed.
Best,
Daniel.
--
"It's like a rainbow. Without an observer at a 23 degree angle to
the light reflected a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no
rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a
23 degree to the universe." -- Zoya Boone, Red Mars
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