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Naming LibreOffice turned out to be very difficult indeed. http://luxate.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/agreeing-on-childs-name-simple-task.html http://luxate.blogspot
by davidgerard 9y ago
Naming LibreOffice turned out to be very difficult indeed.
http://luxate.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/agreeing-on-childs-name-simple-task.html http://luxate.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/agreeing-on-childs-name...
tl;dr trademarks in lots of countries, URL availability in lots of countries. This stuff is hard. "Why don't they just make up a new name?" Well, that explains why.
- mcbits 9y agoHe also doesn't sound very excited about the name, but "it was already hard enough to settle on this name" is reasonable enough I guess. I wonder what they would have come up with without the self-imposed constraint to sound like a derivative of OpenOffice.