[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-discuss] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis

Hi Simos,

Am 2013-01-25 16:34, schrieb Simos Xenitellis:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM,  <vdvogt@drvdvogt.de> wrote:
> > Hi Simos,
> >
> > Am 2013-01-25 16:07, schrieb Simos Xenitellis:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM,  <vdvogt@drvdvogt.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi Simos,
> > > > yes, you are right!
> > > > But, OpenOffice.org is past.
> > > > The projects name now is Apache OpenOffice.
> > > >
> > > > With the "abbreviation" OpenOffice I refer to the former 
> > > > OpenOffice.org
> > > > and
> > > > to Apache OpenOffice.
> > > > I hope you will accept this abbreviation.
> > >
> > > If you are doing academic work, you should use the proper names.
> > > The reason that 'OpenOffice' was not selected ten years ago was
> > > because some other company in Europe had already registered the 
> > > name
> > > 'OpenOffice'.
> >
> >
> > Not entirely correct.
> > It was an american enterprise that has grabed the rights for this 
> > name.
> > OpenOffice.org is now in the hands of Oracle and that will not spit 
> > it out.
> > ;-(
>
> The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to some other company, not
> related to any of these. Whoever has the trademark for "OpenOffice",
> had that trademark well before the year 2000 (when "OpenOffice.org"
> was trademarked).
> The trademark to "OpenOffice.org" is probably with Oracle, but it is
> not in use as it refers to the old defunct project.
>
> If you use "OpenOffice" for these office suites, then you are using 
> an
> informal term.
> Most likely it will not look good in your Master thesis to have an
> informal term. But then that is up to you and your school.

Of course I will not use this informal name in my Master Thesis.
I just had used it for abbreviation.
But if this will cause so much trouble I will use the correct terms in 
future.
regards
Veit


> Simos
>
> > regards
> > Veit
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Simos
> > >
> > > > Am 2013-01-25 15:52, schrieb Simos Xenitellis:
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM,  <vdvogt@drvdvogt.de> wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > my name is Veit.
> > > > > > I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy 
> > > > > > (ftacademy.org)
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu).
> > > > > > Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master
> > > > > > Thesis.
> > > > > > This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and
> > > > > > LibreOffice.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > There used to be a project 'OpenOffice.org' which is now defunct.
> > > > > Out of that project, we now have 'LibreOffice' and 'Apache
> > > > > OpenOffice', and possibly others.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sadly, www.openoffice.org does not reflect this situation.
> > > > > Sorry for hijacking.
> > > > >
> > > > > Simos

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