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Lost the .orgLost the .orgPosted Oct 20, 2012 21:31 UTC (Sat) by jensend (guest, #1385)In reply to: Lost the .org by man_ls Parent article: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator
The suffix was probably just chosen because they were already using openoffice.org as their website and they figured including the suffix would be easy to remember and not force too huge of a branding change.
I guess you can call that "commercial reasons" if you like, but your portrayal of Sun as trying to jump on some dotcom bubble hype phrase for its fashion appeal and then leaving it there through ignorance that it had fallen out of fashion is really wildly inaccurate.
Only the lawyers etc involved really know why Sun took that route then and why Apache Legal Affairs cleared the more direct name now.
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Lost the .org Posted Oct 20, 2012 22:17 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I am really puzzled that they chose a bad, unwieldy name and stuck to it for so many years. Perhaps they wanted to bank on the community aspect by highlighting the ".org" suffix. Remember that at the time many companies were trying to harness the power of the community by launching ".org" initiatives.I don't really know, but you are offering nothing but conjecture either. Anything better than a "was probably just chosen" would be interesting!
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