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That is stating (ignoring, here, my exaggeration for comic effect) that a specific trademark and associated goodwill have no monetary value. That is literally stating that the trademarks and associated goodwill have no monetary value. Posted 7:42 UTC (Thu) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943)
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Various people within TDF have repeatedly pointed out that if the code had been placed under a permissive license (and under the stewardship of a steering committee that wasn't, well, so deeply hostile towards external contributions) before the community had to resort to forking it to get patches in, that there wouldn't be a fork. It's not that AOO is non-copyleft which is the problem: it's that by the time AOO was birthed there was already a significant body of copylefted work built on top of the old OOo codebase and that the development community had chosen, en masse, to continue to contribute on a copyleft basis (licensing issues having been a big part of the historical problem with contributing to OOo), and that none of the three vendors mentioned previously were willing to offer the trademark to a copylefted codebase (even one under the MPL, like LibreOffice, which is the very weakest of the mainstream copyleft licenses).
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I think you underestimate the degree to which the free software community has leverage here, especially considering that people have spent the last five years hard at work getting people to use LO instead.Īs for the matter of copyleft versus non-copyleft: I think you're missing the point. The non-technical press routinely mentions it at least in passing when the matter of Office's cost comes up. For ten years now I've seen consumer laptops sold with OpenOffice installed. OpenOffice long ago escaped into the wider consumer environment. The "everyone" you're referring to here doesn't just include the enthusiast community, though. Posted 6:07 UTC (Wed) by thumperward (guest, #34368)
If it weren't, then all the people who have made LibreOffice such a success wouldn't have tried so very, very hard to get the trademark released in the first place.
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Maybe from a position deep inside the free software community (especially on the Linux side) it's difficult to see, but in the wider world (the one in which tens of millions of Windows users download Apache OpenOffice every month) OpenOffice is actually an extremely strong brand, probably at least as strong as Firefox (another free software project with a strong trademark that has successfully found its way onto consumer PCs despite having an infinitesimal fraction of the marketing budget of its competitors). What I said was that the real-world usage value of the SO / OO.o / OO / AOO ever-changing tangle of brand identities is little importance, a marketing train-wreck in any event, and best ignored while concentrating on LibreOffice. If you didn't intend to convey that meaning, you should probably not have used that expression. That's the direct meaning of the figure of speech.
I keep hearing about the 'trademarks and associated goodwill' of the project of yore, but, as the saying locally goes, that and $2.25 will just about buy you a ride on Muni, right? Posted 8:15 UTC (Tue) by thumperward (guest, #34368)
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