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

Hi all,
On 14/04/2011 16:42, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> 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.

well, the word "bohneur" in French is owned by Nestlé :p
> Besides, a quick reading of the link above seems to deal more on the
> pivot table user interface than on the name...
For the FR community we decided to no change it to the MS terminology 
and keep the OOo one.

Kind regards
Sophie
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