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aaaaauuuurrrrgh that's sound in principle but placing 301 on a domain like that is really, really bad.
Indeed, it should be 307 instead, just to keep the decision revertible.
Simplest instant solution: 301 every page about openoffice to a page about libreoffice.
aaaaauuuurrrrgh that's sound in principle but placing 301 on a domain like that is really, really bad.
You make one mistake, and it's with you for the rest of eternity.
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It made a sense few years ago, now Libre Office has a brand of its own. I don't think having the ownership would be useful now.
OpenOffice still a much stronger brand outside of the Linux community. Basically all the non-technical people I know (including some very non-technical people like my father-in-law) know that OpenOffice is the free alternative for MS Office. I'll bet not one of them have heard of Libre Office.
I thought everyone interested in a FOSS office suite was using libreoffice.
Everybody is using LibreOffice, except a poor few that get misguided by search services to the Apache OpenOffice website. IMHO there is no sane reason why Apache OpenOffice still exists. Edit: Looks like there are a lot more OpenOffice users out there than I thought, sorry. I really thought the world would have moved on, at least since 2013/14, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/St...
I thought everyone interested in a FOSS office suite was using libreoffice.
> libreoffice I hate that name. As a German I have no idea how to pronounce it and it's even harder for my non-techy friends. The name "Open office" has a very nice flow and everybody knows how to pronounce it, but "libre office"? They should have selected an easier name for that project.
Like Robert E. Lee and a donkey.
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Even in an American business context, "Libre" sounds stupid. Having it in the name hurts their popularity more than they know.
What connotation does "Libre" have in American English? (I'm French, to my ears it sounds perfectly reasonnable, if a bit "legalese")
That is to say, latin american freedom.
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What connotation does "Libre" have in American English? (I'm French, to my ears it sounds perfectly reasonnable, if a bit "legalese")
I speak en-AU - I'm not sure what connotations "libre" has to most English speakers who haven't learned a Romance language or been involved in the Free Software world. "Libre" is not a common English word - I imagine to many English speakers you'd probably have to explain the shared etymology with "liberty" for people to get it. The French pronunciation is non-obvious to an English speaker.
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What connotation does "Libre" have in American English? (I'm French, to my ears it sounds perfectly reasonnable, if a bit "legalese")
I speak en-AU - I'm not sure what connotations "libre" has to most English speakers who haven't learned a Romance language or been involved in the Free Software world. "Libre" is not a common English word - I imagine to many English speakers you'd probably have to explain the shared etymology with "liberty" for people to get it. The French pronunciation is non-obvious to an English speaker.
Could they drop openoffice, then rename libreoffice to openoffice? That would be fantastic
And LibreOffice could remain for the rest of us who don't mind getting new features every month or so.
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Even in an American business context, "Libre" sounds stupid. Having it in the name hurts their popularity more than they know.
What connotation does "Libre" have in American English? (I'm French, to my ears it sounds perfectly reasonnable, if a bit "legalese")