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I think the document foundation should get the brand, instant of Apache squatting. It's still far better known that libreoffice.
by 1ris 10y ago
I think the document foundation should get the brand, instant of Apache squatting. It's still far better known that libreoffice.
- type0 10y agoMaybe Libre Office could take over the branding, making "0pen Libre Office" (OLO for short, not to be confused with LOL). That way even ppl searching for Open Office would find a good free Office suite.
- tener 10y agoIt made a sense few years ago, now Libre Office has a brand of its own. I don't think having the ownership would be useful now.
- dagw 10y agoOpenOffice still a much stronger brand outside of the Linux community. Basically all the non-technical people I know (including some very non-technical people like my father-in-law) know that OpenOffice is the free alternative for MS Office. I'll bet not one of them have heard of Libre Office.
- pmontra 10y agoI know some people using LibreOffice, because some technical friend or I installed it for them, and keep calling it OpenOffice even if they see the LibreOffice dialog every time it starts. I think it's a brand who's become the name of a product class, like Xerox in its heydays.
- brewdad 10y agoThis is me. My mind still thinks OpenOffice, then I remember it's really LibreOffice now.
- gwbas1c 10y agoI still think and say "open office." LibreOffice is that thing that I downloaded when I heard about OpenOffice being insecure. Probably the lesson to learn here is that an open source project should do as much as possible to keep its branding separate from its parent companies.
- quarterto 10y agoI'd wager that most of LibreOffice's brand recognition is by people who are aware of the fork
- coldpie 10y agoAs far as I can tell, the "LibreOffice brand" is "OpenOffice but harder to pronounce and spell".
- reactor 10y agoI don't think so, I have talked to many of my friends about OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and no surprise, majority of them heard about OpenOffice but not LibreOffice.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoNope. A non-techie friend at uni was still using OpenOffice on their laptop, I had to tell them to install LibreOffice. Because non-tech people do not know about LibreOffice. They've heard of OpenOffice, and that's it.