[marketing] Re: Ubuntu does not respect the trademark OpenOffice.org

2010-08-05 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 05/08/10 05:42, Stephen Samuel wrote: One does not need to tag each and every misuse on the web to make a difference, but tagging every misuse *you notice* is both productive and possible. It also helps to protect the OpenOffice.Org trademark from being overturned for lack of prosecution. I

[marketing] Re: Ubuntu does not respect the trademark OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 04/08/10 14:20, Luiz Oliveira wrote: I would say both, Dell and Ubuntu. The Dell page is rather old and is not using the current Ubuntu logo, font and colour scheme so I suspect that that page is Dell's responsibility. A quick search of the Ubuntu.com website however shows a few places w

[marketing] Re: Ubuntu does not respect the trademark OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 04/08/10 13:18, Luiz Oliveira wrote: *http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/client/en/ubuntu_landing?c=uk&l=en * *"3) Ubuntu with OpenOffice is compatible with Microsoft^® Office and Adobe^® Acrobat^® * I would say that is DELL's rather Ubuntu's problem.

[marketing] Re: NZ Govt throws out MS supply deal

2009-05-26 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 26/05/09 07:15, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I would love to see how much you can save training your staff in OOo than to MS 2007. Or how much in the long term will mean for your company. In the UK, the Government announced a new "action plan" back in February. One of the key new aspects fo

[marketing] Re: British opposition wants to save millions by OS Software

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Cor Nouws wrote: FYI. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/tory_linux_push/ link to Dutch article based on the above mentioned: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/58093/britse-oppositie-wil-miljoenen-besparen-met-open-source.html The Register can be a little "glib" for my taste. And most of the

[marketing] Re: 55 000 OpenOffice.org versions for students in France

2009-01-24 Thread Alan Lord (News)
sophie wrote: Hi all, For information, 55 000 laptops will be distributed to students and teachers in one department of France (Oise). They will be prepared with OpenOffice.org. Unfortunately they will be under Vista, but they have a lot of free educational resources on them. The OOo part of t

[marketing] Presentation from BETT 2009

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Hi all, here is a nicely edited presentation from the world's largest IT Education expo that was held here in London last week. http://opensourceschools.org.uk/bett-presentation.html OpenSource Schools is a BECTA funded initiative to promote and encourage the use of FOSS in Schools, and shar