The commercial label is Enterprise, while "powered by..." can be part of the product name. We should remember that we are discussing a label and not a product name, which does not change and is LibreOffice.
The label is an attribute, with the objective of adding information to the product name. On 10/13/20 3:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > > I suggest we try to keep it as honest as possible. The membership should > speak out on this item re: "edition". > > IMO, "Community Edition" is fine, and agree that this could be modified > at a future date when the membership would review the edition labels; > perhaps reviewed every 4-5 years or something of the like. > > We profess how we are a community and collective of many different > language groups working on the project, whether it be coders, designers, > translation, docs, etc. So, in my mind "community" is the exact > description. It does not bring up the idea of setting any commercial > ties, etc. If members outside of the community, users, decide to adopt > LibreOffice, then they do so and enjoy the fruits of the wonderful > software solution that LibreOffice brings to them. > > As for any commercial versions of LibreOffice, they (the people behind > "commercializing" LibreOffice) should also be made to abide by a > membership-decided label. I like the idea of "Powered by ..." label, not > sure if this would infringe on any trademarks. > > But, by and large, should any organization wish to use the LibreOffice > suite as we know, coming from the community, then no problem. Just that, > at this point, no commercial support is built into the community project > for such a beast, Having a robust list of commercial businesses, > advertised on the LibreOffice website, that can help install LibreOffice > for commercial usage, IMO, is pretty well an accepted solution to most > who run businesses and search for commercial application solutions. In > this day of age, most businesses are used to seeing a community > opensource version of software with an alternate commercial version of > the same for a price. > > So, for me, "Community Edition" is fine. We would also need to decide on > the commercial label at the same time, of which, I prefer "Powered by ...". > > Cheers, > > Marc > -- Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email [email protected] hangout/jabber [email protected] - skype italovignoli GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
