Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Rename datapilot to Pivot Table?

Hi

Em 14-04-2011 10:27, Andre Schnabel escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> in OOo 3.4 "Datapilot" was renamed to "Pivot Table". This change was
> merged to LibO and is now in localization.
>
> While we discussed if we will  change the name in GErman translations,
> Stefan Weigel found something interesting:
>
> Von: Stefan Weigel<stefan.weigel@bildungskreis.org>
>
>
> > Es gibt übrigens eine Patentschrift United States Patent Nr.
> > US6,411,313 B1, in der das User-Interface der microsoftschen
> > Pivot-Tabelle als Erfindung geschützt wird. In dieser Schrift heißt
> > es unter anderem wörtlich: "PivotTable is a trademark of Microsoft
> > Corporation."
>
> http://ip.com/patent/US6411313 (Seite 10, 2. Absatz)
>
> Short translation is that there is a patent claim which references to
> PivotTable as trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Within the last
> years this was always named as reason why OOo needs to use the term
> "Datapilot" - I have no idea if (and how) this situation did change
> recently. In fact there might be an agreement between Oracle and MS
> which covers OOo .. but surely not LibO.
>
> Any ideas on this?

Woah.... seems we live in a mad, mad world...

In Brazil it is known as "dynamic table". I wonder one here can 
trademark such common words.

Besides, a quick reading of the link above seems to deal more on the 
pivot table user interface than on the name...

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