[marketing-dev] Re: openoffice.ca about to expire

Mike Gifford <[email protected]> Mon, 16 May 2011 00:41:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.marketing
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My main concern is that it becomes a porn portal.  

Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> was quite interested in the domain at one point.  But he didn't respond to my earlier request to have it transferred from us.

I don't think there's much official OOo support in Canada.  Maybe in the Ubuntu crowd.  Not that there aren't a lot of people using it.  More and more it is becoming common to find someone using this tool.

It's possible that the http://www.documentfoundation.org are interested in it.  

Mike

On 2011-05-15, at 9:07 PM, Peter Junge wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> thanks for the offer. I would doubt (but someone may correct me) that Oracle has interest in that domain. There are several registered trademarks called Open Office, Openoffice etc. on this planet, which have nothing to do with OOo. OOo has the one and only trademark OpenOffice.org, which is registered by Oracle. Hence, openoffice.ca may be a legal pitfall to some extend. Isn't there a Canadian OOo community which might be interested? At least Louis lives in Canada.
> 
> Best regards,
> Peter
> 
> Am 14.05.2011 05:09, schrieb Mike Gifford:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We're wanting to transfer the domain name for openoffice.ca to someone within the OpenOffice, but am really not sure who I should transfer ownership to.  I'd rather it not just be part of Oracle, but not sure if there's an alternative.
>> 
>> Anyways, would appreciate some thoughts on this.
>> 
>> Mike

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