On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2/7/13 8:59 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> >> Rob Weir wrote:
> >>> But I would have trademark concerns if a statement like this installed
> >>> anything but OpenOffice:
> >>> sudo yum install openoffice.org
> >>
> >> It doesn't. But indeed the openoffice.org alias has been discussed and
> I
> >> hope we can get it reassigned or dropped without invoking trademarks.
> >> Anyway, it is not one of the technically problematic aliases but just a
> >> convenience alias, so it can be addressed after we have packages ready.
> >>
>
This renaming or re-aliasing or whatever you want to call it is simply
unconscionable by my way of thinking. I brought this up before though
somewhat couched. It IS a software trademark and perhaps copyright
infringement in my mind.
>
> > We should argue that the aliases came from OpenOffice and that they were
> > hijacked if you want by LibreOffice. They even used the package name in
> > the past to install LibreOffice and not OpenOffice. We tolerated it
> > because we had no updated version in place with the latest security
> > fixes. But that's it and the game changed, we have a current version and
> > will provide future versions.
> >
>
> It comes down to user confusion. We've already seen users confused by
> this, where they think they are installing OpenOffice and instead get
> something else. This is classic trademark infringement. You can't
> offer bottles of Coca-Cola for to consumers and then fill the bottles
> with Pepsi.
>
YES, you are correct!!!!!
>
> > And again changing soffice means much more work and I really don't see
> > why we should change it because they belong to OpenOffice.
> >
> > Some magic UNO bootstrap code used by UNO client applications used the
> > soffice alias for example. Changing it would break potential client
> > applications.
> >
> > The other aliases like oowriter are obvious where they come from, why
> > should we change them?
>
again, yes!
> >
> > It is important to come back in distros but we should not easy give up
> > what belongs to OpenOffice.
>
1000% agree with this statement!
> >
> > Juergen
> >
> >
>
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