[vox] OpenOffice_.org_

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs@sonic.net):

> I just noticed this blurb in a little tutorial on OpenOffice.org:
> 
>     Due to some trademarking concerns, the OpenOffice software suite
>     and its development organization both are officially named
>     OpenOffice.org. ...
> 
> Anyone have any details on that?

It's because there's already a Linux VAR of long-standing in the
Netherlands called Open Office (http://www.openoffice.nl/).  The firm's
not very well known in the USA, but quite well known in Europe.

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