Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Edition Matter

The commercial label is Enterprise, while "powered by..." can be part of
the product name. We should remember that we are discussing a label and
not a product name, which does not change and is LibreOffice.

The label is an attribute, with the objective of adding information to
the product name.

On 10/13/20 3:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> I suggest we try to keep it as honest as possible. The membership should
> speak out on this item re: "edition".
>
> IMO, "Community Edition" is fine, and agree that this could be modified
> at a future date when the membership would review the edition labels;
> perhaps reviewed every 4-5 years or something of the like.
>
> We profess how we are a community and collective of many different
> language groups working on the project, whether it be coders, designers,
> translation, docs, etc. So, in my mind "community" is the exact
> description. It does not bring up the idea of setting any commercial
> ties, etc. If members outside of the community, users, decide to adopt
> LibreOffice, then they do so and enjoy the fruits of the wonderful
> software solution that LibreOffice brings to them.
>
> As for any commercial versions of LibreOffice, they (the people behind
> "commercializing" LibreOffice) should also be made to abide by a
> membership-decided label. I like the idea of "Powered by ..." label, not
> sure if this would infringe on any trademarks.
>
> But, by and large, should any organization wish to use the LibreOffice
> suite as we know, coming from the community, then no problem. Just that,
> at this point, no commercial support is built into the community project
> for such a beast, Having a robust list of commercial businesses,
> advertised on the LibreOffice website, that can help install LibreOffice
> for commercial usage, IMO, is pretty well an accepted solution to most
> who run businesses and search for commercial application solutions. In
> this day of age, most businesses are used to seeing a community
> opensource version of software with an alternate commercial version of
> the same for a price.
>
> So, for me, "Community Edition" is fine. We would also need to decide on
> the commercial label at the same time, of which, I prefer "Powered by ...".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc

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