Trademark lawyers are raising their eyebrows.
Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
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Isn't LibreOffice still an integrated office suite like OpenOffice.org was? I never bothered installing it, so I'm genuinely asking about that one. But Google Workspace would probably count as a fully integrated suite.
LibreOffice is like Office a collection of intercompatible apps. Microsoft Works was a single application offering Word/Excel/Outlook-like functionality.
And, oddly, a terminal emulator.
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#133Is this by some random company that happens to rent an address in Hague? And even that is uncertain because there's no actual address except a vague OSM pin. And no company name either. This seems untrustworthy, double so for a product that claims to prioritize transparency. > Our headquarters are in The Netherlands (The Hague). Contact us to book a meeting or ask any questions. source: https://office.eu/contact
Sounds like when there was that news of "Europe is creating a social media website called 'W' to compete with X" and it just turned out it was some random tiny company.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft does not have a trademark for "Office", which is clearly a type of product and can't be used as a program name (just like you can't name your oatmeal "Oatmeal" and expect trademark protection). Microsoft does have a figurative trademark for "Office" with the rectangular icon: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01141355... - office.eu's logo does not bear any resemblance. The only way this w…
>just like hundreds of other companies offering products with "Office" in their name There may be hundreds of other companies selling products with the noun "office" in their names, but there only is one producing a productivity suite called simply "Office". I would expect launching another productivity suite called "Office" would be trademark infringement. Just like I can't release a car called "Beetle" or "Golf".
Microsoft never called their productivity suite "simply" office, nor have they registered a product under that name.
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#135Isn't Proton Docs European? Not that any European government would support them, because they don't spy on their users.
I thought Proton did spy on their users.
Financial transactions aren't protected, so if you pay, you can personally be tied to the account, but they don't have access to the internal contents of the account.
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#136Has there been a committee to decide on a committee to put forward a white paper for another committee?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
LibreOffice is like Office a collection of intercompatible apps. Microsoft Works was a single application offering Word/Excel/Outlook-like functionality.
And, oddly, a terminal emulator.
1980s office suites very commonly included terminal emulators, because they were in high-demand back then
Most large enterprises, you’d have core business applications running on a mainframe or minicomputer or Unix host, and you’d need a terminal emulator to access them from your PC/microcomputer. A lot of places used mainframe/minicomputer-based email/calendar (e.g. IBM PROFS, DISOSS, SNADS, Office/36, OfficeVision; DEC ALL-IN-ONE; DataGeneral CEO; HPMAIL; etc) and centrally hosted word processing systems (e.g. IBM DisplayWriter) were commonly used for document/content management. And then added to that you had services like CompuServe and BBS systems
It is likely the Microsoft Works developers dogfooded its terminal emulator a lot, since at the time Microsoft ran its business on Xenix servers, until they eventually migrated to Windows NT in the first half of the 1990s
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft does not have a trademark for "Office", which is clearly a type of product and can't be used as a program name (just like you can't name your oatmeal "Oatmeal" and expect trademark protection). Microsoft does have a figurative trademark for "Office" with the rectangular icon: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01141355... - office.eu's logo does not bear any resemblance. The only way this w…
>just like hundreds of other companies offering products with "Office" in their name There may be hundreds of other companies selling products with the noun "office" in their names, but there only is one producing a productivity suite called simply "Office". I would expect launching another productivity suite called "Office" would be trademark infringement. Just like I can't release a car called "Beetle" or "Golf".
If you'd read the article you'd see this one's called "Office.eu" or "Office EU", which is fine.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a reference for that number? It's hard to get numbers on what countries pay to Microsoft. The Dutch parliament has repeatedly asked and has not gotten numbers even though there is a whole agency since 2014 ( https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerp... ) specifically for giving Microsoft preferential treatment in procurement.
Yes but Holland has been governed by the VVD Neoliberals for more than a decade and they have a super hard-on for everything American. I think that will probably change now.
We can only hope.
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#140Microsoft draws over 3 billion dollars out of Norway yearly. We are many that want this number much, much closer to zero. At it's small steps like this that makes it possible.
Your sovereign wealth fund probably makes 3 billion dollars out of Microsoft yearly.
The US is more than free to dissuade the fund from investing in Microsoft, and I don't think the Norwegian public would mind it being invested elsewhere.