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I think my one issue with LibreOffice is, honestly, the name. I speak Spanish, so I get the meaning behind Libre meaning free (as in unencumbered, or available, not referring to price).

But for some reason the name still bugs me. OpenOffice was such a nice, clean name. LibreOffice just doesn't roll off the tongue in the same way.



> OpenOffice was such a nice, clean name.

Actually technically it was called OpenOffice.org, which is pretty silly.


True, but it was easy enough talking to non-techies to just drop the .org and no one was the wiser. I also agree the .org was a bit odd to include in the official name.


As another spanish speaker I have to say that the name isn't a problem at all. But I must acknowledge that for the majority of people the name sounds stupid, I wonder how many will get used to it.


I definitely agree. Libre does not nicely roll into Office like Open did. It makes you need to pronounciate more.


I think you mean "enunciate"?


Yes and thanks, that is a handy new word for me.


Hopefully the major distros will just rebrand it, thus removing that problem and allowing for tighter integration with the rest of the OS.




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