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Brand Confusion

Brand Confusion

Posted Mar 18, 2012 15:38 UTC (Sun) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: Brand Confusion by gomadtroll
Parent article: Weir: Where did the time go?

I am happy to see all LibreOffice bug reports you referenced are resolved now. But that is kind of the point, The Document Foundation does take care of the OpenOffice.org community through the continuation of LibreOffice for real users. It would have been good if that was acknowledge more by granting TDF the trademark and openoffice.org domain. It isn't that the ASF isn't a good home for the new Symphony based fork. I hope they will do some cool things. But for end users that need a community and program that supersedes the OpenOffice.org program right now (even if it is just for security fixes) TDF clearly is the more logical choice IMHO. Especially if you have actually read the dev & user lists for LO & AOO and used the various releases of the programs. AOO obviously doesn't have any real release, but there are dev-builds that show it is still very unpolished and misses a lot of features introduced in LibreOffice 3.4 and 3.5 (and even compared to the old LibreOffice 3.3 release):

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-3-new-features-and...
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and...
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and...


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