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> Sun named it OpenOffice. Slightly more correct: Sun kept StarOffice as a commercial offering and also open sourced it under the name of OpenOffice.org in par

> Sun named it OpenOffice. Slightly more correct: Sun kept StarOffice as a commercial offering and also open sourced it under the name of OpenOffice.org in parallel. The .org was quite important to them in the name. > LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice after Oracle acquired Sun. The actual forking happens earlier with a patch set living outside Sun and sponsored by some Linux distros for a while. After Oracle's acquisition however the foundation was built and the name LibreOffice was picked.

skissane 2y ago
> The .org was quite important to them in the name. Apparently because, in some country in which Sun did business, someone else had already trademarked “OpenOffice”, but Sun’s lawyers believed the addition of “.org” was enough to sidestep that trademark. I think in many jurisdictions, if someone else already has legal claim to a trademark, sticking “.org” on the end may not be sufficient to escape infringement. But, maybe under the laws of whichever country this trademark existed in, it was. Or at least, so Sun’s lawyers believed-hence, they were quite insistent on including the “.org”
- joshuaissac 2y ago
  It is owned by a Dutch company that offers automation services: https://web.archive.org/web/20130823152257/http://www.openoffice.nl/merkenregistratie https://web.archive.org/web/20130823152257/http://www.openof... Within Benelux, the company had an agreement with nl.openoffice.org where the latter would include a notice on their website to clarify that they were not affiliated with the trademark holder. According to https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1372955 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1372955 it was also used by Orange UK, but that happened after OpenOffice.org was released: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/orange-launches-open-office/ https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/orange-laun...

skissane 2y ago

> The .org was quite important to them in the name. Apparently because, in some country in which Sun did business, someone else had already trademarked “OpenOffice”, but Sun’s lawyers believed the addition of “.org” was enough to sidestep that trademark. I think in many jurisdictions, if someone else already has legal claim to a trademark, sticking “.org” on the end may not be sufficient to escape infringement. But, maybe under the laws of whichever country this trademark existed in, it was. Or at least, so Sun’s lawyers believed-hence, they were quite insistent on including the “.org”

joshuaissac 2y ago
It is owned by a Dutch company that offers automation services: https://web.archive.org/web/20130823152257/http://www.openoffice.nl/merkenregistratie https://web.archive.org/web/20130823152257/http://www.openof... Within Benelux, the company had an agreement with nl.openoffice.org where the latter would include a notice on their website to clarify that they were not affiliated with the trademark holder. According to https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1372955 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1372955 it was also used by Orange UK, but that happened after OpenOffice.org was released: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/orange-launches-open-office/ https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/orange-laun...