On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:14, Loic Dachary wrote:
I experience the same problems :-( Sun deliberatly marketed it to achieve this result. Since OpenOffice is Free Software people say StarOffice and OpenOffice interchangeably and they even *use* StarOffice because OpenOffice is Free Software.
What shows that StarOffice is marketed more is that we don't even have the right name for the Free alternative - the name of the software is now "OpenOffice.org" (I believe the correct short name is "OOo" :).
On the brighter side, I got pulled up for this (saying OpenOffice instead of OpenOffice.org) in something I wrote recently by a "volunteer marketer" for OpenOffice.org - so, this is obviously a problem that they recognise, and there are people reading things and making sure that people make the correct distinction between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. Perhaps we can prod them a little so that they also make the distinction between the types of licence as well as the name - although, they may well do that already, I don't know.
Cheers,
Alex.