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I still maintain that LibreOffice is a terrible and confusing name, and that OpenOffice was great branding. I do think that LibreOffice made a great move in te
by techtalsky 15y ago
I still maintain that LibreOffice is a terrible and confusing name, and that OpenOffice was great branding. I do think that LibreOffice made a great move in terms of one confident fork everyone could jump ship to. And... I get the joke, they're saying what kind of "free" it really is, but it really doesn't roll off the tongue does it?
OpenOffice was an open source success story partially because of its name. It was differentiated from other open source options: KOffice, GNOMEOffice, NeoOffice. Why?
I believe because of the branding difference. It doesn't sound like some weird thing that might work to a non-expert user. It's "Office" but it's "Open". I'm a smart guy and I still have to look up Libre when the fork began to get the joke.
I think the rename and fork must be a joy to Microsoft, that's all.