Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-20 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi Steven, StarOffice regularly release their software with copyright protected fonts, clipart and the migration wizard for MSO (which might have been moved to OOo now) if I am not mistaken ;-) Best Regards Per Eriksson 20 jan 2010 kl. 23.58 skrev Ian : On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:45 -0500

Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-20 Thread Ian
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:45 -0500, Steven Shelton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/19/2010 3:07 PM, Heavlin, Lee wrote: > > From time to time, Sun takes the > > OpenOffice.org code base, integrates proprietary features, and releases > > the combined product as a n

Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-20 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/19/2010 3:07 PM, Heavlin, Lee wrote: > From time to time, Sun takes the > OpenOffice.org code base, integrates proprietary features, and releases > the combined product as a new version of StarOffice. In fact, a month > before OpenOffice.org 2.0

Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-19 Thread Andy Brown
Hi Lee, Heavlin, Lee wrote: > It is a trademark issue. Someone else has OpenOffice trademarked. > > See TechRepublic at: > http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6055020.html > Thanks for the info and link. Andy ---

RE: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-19 Thread Heavlin, Lee
It is a trademark issue. Someone else has OpenOffice trademarked. See TechRepublic at: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6055020.html Here is an excerpt: Where did OpenOffice.org 2.0 come from? Let's start with a history lesson. Even though you've been a Microsoft Office user,