On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:53:36AM -0300, Thiago Avelino wrote: > Because OpenOffice.org is called BrOffice.org in Brazil? > At the end of 2004 due to problems with the make Open Office, > previously registered by a company in Rio de Janeiro, it was necessary > to change the community name and the product. Thus, the project led to > the project OpenOffice.org.br BrOffice.org. > > On January 25, 2006, was officially announced the launch of the NGO > BrOffice.org now organize community activities OpenOffice.org.br. > Despite the change of name, BrOffice.org continued representing the > international OpenOffice.org project, with the guarantee of all legal > instruments to protect brand BrOffice.org. You mentioned problems with patents, but nothing more. Either *both* OpenOffice and BrOffice are illegal, or none is. Trademarks is a different beast. -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20090325/749f1eb0/attachment-0007.sig>