Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

paul.hermeneutic wrote:
> There will be few problems understanding "LibreOffice."  It is likely
> to be more universally understood than "OpenOffice."

For Romance languages that may be true, but I'm not so sure about the rest 
of the world. Even on this mailing list I've already seen LibreOffice 
spelled as "LibraOffice", "LiberOffice" and "LiberteOffice", so the name 
does not seem too easy to adopt internationally. (Not to mention that on 
some Finnish discussion forums it was immediately nicknamed "Libresse" 
after an international brand of feminine hygiene products, which also 
happens to have a seagull attached to its logo. But of course puns could 
get inspired by any name.)

I agree that the reference to liberty is an appealing idea from a semantic 
and philosophical point of view, but like a few others here, I'm not quite 
convinced that the new name will be optimal for actually marketing the 
product. It would be interesting to hear more details about the other 
options that were discussed, and why exactly they were rejected. For 
example, were there any serious alternatives that could have been 
abbreviated as OO (with just two Os, as opposed to OOo)?

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