On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/18/2010 06:20 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 00:22 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: >> >>> Concern 1: >>> I interpret a portion of this message to say that the LibreOffice folks >>> desire no association with the OOo name. >> >> I have been told they are concerned about possible repercussions from >> Oracle if they do not avoid any association with the OOo name. This is >> not the same thing as "desire no association". > > That makes sense given previous actions on the part of Oracle. > > Do you have a feeling that the two products will remain sufficiently similar > that long term the documentation will apply to both? > > One of my first thoughts (was to use the LO prefix because that at least > captures one product, but may also draw fire from Oracle, but that is mere > speculation). > >> If you or Dick or Alexandro or anyone else who does not like my proposal >> can come up with a solution that does *not* involve me doing a lot of >> research or getting stuck with technical issues I don't know enough to >> deal with, but *does* involve having someone (preferably several people) >> available who are competent to do the technical work involved in keeping >> a Plone website up to date and functioning well... I would be happy to >> hear your suggestion > > Do you have any insight into future plans for a new name for OOoDev? My > opinion is that we should not choose a new name until after OOoDev has > chosen their name (unless we have reason that they will follow suit). Are we > able to dialog with them to see if they intend to change their name, and, if > so, are they willing to change at the same time that we do. > > I have no objections to moving to OOoDev, nor do I object to a name change > (especially if this secures help from OOoDev). > > My concern here is consistency. My opinion is that we will be more > successful if we are able to use the same name for common systems. If we opt > to go to ODF, then might we persuade OOoDev to also use ODF? If OOoDev is
Maybe OfficeAuthors would be consistent to both platforms and none at the same time. > not willing to discuss a name change on their part other than to agree that > they will likely change their name in the near future, will they allow us to > continue with the current name until they make a decision on their new name > knowing that we might be willing to use the same naming convention? > > I have an expectation that the OOoForum will not likely change their name, > but, user.services.openoffice.org may be more inclined to at least be open > to follow. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
