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At the moment of this reply, your comment was downvoted, and I don't understand why. People, or at least techies, when talking about free/libre open source proj

At the moment of this reply, your comment was downvoted, and I don't understand why. People, or at least techies, when talking about free/libre open source projects, see them as double edged swords - on one side, a diversity in solutions provides choice (and better chance of it being upheld over time) along with freedom to users, and on the other side, the complaints are usually about a lack of focus, with energy and time being split across projects rather than uniting against locked-in commercial interests. From the latter point of view, I personally would prefer AOO doing exactly what you stated in the interest of "greater good".

Jedd 9y ago
Thank you. I possibly should have augmented with a comment around how I think trying to re-re-name LibreOffice back to OpenOffice would be a bad idea. Even though I'm one of the minority that understands the nature of the fork, and the current status of both projects, as some LO developers have noted here it would not be palatable to some of them to try to flip back to 'OpenOffice' as a project name. I don't believe educating users of OpenOffice about the name change is an intractable problem, but, again as some LO contributors have noted here, it's not necessarily LO's role to do this, nor is it something they necessarily could do. But it is something the AOO team could do, and, as per TFA, it's probably now the right thing to do.