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"OpenOffice" trademark holder

I wonder who has the OpenOffice trademark that forced this office suite to append the awkward and unlovely ".org" to its name. I think it would be relevant to mention the owner's name in the article and provide a link; I was curious about whom that might be and I'm sure other readers are, too. Does anyone know? LeoO3 02:02, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I added a reference to the OpenOffice.org FAQ and removed the {{fact}} tag. (Someone else might want to beautify my edit; I wasn't sure how to reference a FAQ). I don't think this belongs in the article itself, but I found a "dead" trademark for "Open Office" using the search function at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. There are other possibilities: a trademark could be registered in another country, or someone could just be using it as a trademark -- there is no need to formally register one. I wasn't about to do an exhaustive search. EMan 23:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

External links

I removed a lot of external links... because, frankly, they were growing like weeds newsletters/blogs/fansites/book plugs. OOextras was already linked in the notes section and mentioned in the article body. - Motor (talk) 10:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Will there be a PIM-component comparable to MS Outlook ???

Just wondering if there are any plans known to integrate a PIM-component comparable to MS Outlook. Could not find anything about this in the Web, but found that the lack of such a component is the key point for criticism about OpenOffice. Would be very grateful in anyone could answer to this question and give further details on the issue 89.51.223.202 01:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)*

Why duplicate what Mozilla are doing with Thunderbird? 210.10.199.9 08:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Font formats?

a word may be needed on font format support. Here I was expecting that this would be OS specific, independent of the word processor, but I'm sitting here with Microsoft Word 2004 and Neooffice on OS X 10.3.9, and while Word doesn't manage a single ligature, at all (!!), Neooffice is doing fine. Openoffice via X11, otoh, doesn't even see most fonts, I imagine it doesn't see the OpenType ones. Of course, if I cannot get OpenType fonts with Openoffice (X11), there can be no question of using it, and I'm stuck with Neooffice (which I suppose isn't so bad, but is there no way around this?) dab (ᛏ) 15:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

ok, I found out I need to use fondu [1] to use the .ttf part of the fonts. Concerning OpenType, google gives me mixed signals; does Openoffice, or does it not, support OpenType features in principle? dab (ᛏ) 15:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Archive

I've archived old conversations. Oberiko 16:07, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

How can i get the source of open office?

How can i get the source of Open Office???

Follow the link to the OpenOffice.org homepage, then click "Get OpenOffice.org Version: 2.0.3." There is a link to the source there.
83.70.236.21 08:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

News update

The following information should be integrated into the article:

[2] [3] [4] [5]

--70.111.244.69 00:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Draw comparable to CorelDRAW?

Shouldn't Draw be comparable to Visio instead of CorelDRAW? (Inkscape should be comparable to CorelDRAW)--218.103.186.83 00:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup needed

The paragraph starting with "Fedora Core" under Java Controversy needs cleanup. Specifically the part about the mailing list summary.heavensblade23 02:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. Did a bit of general cleanup as well; all those refs still need to be templatised though. Chris Cunningham 14:28, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

OpenOffice > MS word?

I've heard this from quite alot of people, is it true? --DerMeister (not logged in)

OpenOffice's output should be redirected on top of the MS Word file? I don't quite get you. Chris Cunningham 20:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Is OOo greater than MS Office? I don't know. I'd say OOo is pretty much the same as MS Office, probably about MS Office 2000. Both are good pieces of software.
The major difference is the price. MS Office is about £100 ($200), and much more if you want MS Access. OpenOffice.org is £0 (to download it). If you don't have a good internet connection, OOo (for Windows) is also on the Ubuntu Linux Live CD which you may be able to get sent to you by post, for free.
My advice is try OOo - you don't have anything to lose. Then if you don't like it, buy MS Office. --h2g2bob 21:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)