Good luck in implementing FOSS in your organization.

As already stated, this is certainly not a requirement today. This StarOffice suite required separate licensing.ĪFAIK there was never any license code for installing and using the OpenOffice software suite. I believe there was also an 'Office integration' enterprise (offering soft- and hardware interfacing services) which actually used the brand name, but cannot find any references to that today.įor a short while StarOffice existed as a commercially supported suite alongside. Looks like both of those claims are now considered 'abandoned'. After StarDivision released the StarOffice source code to the public, the product name of the main open-source development branch became '', then 'Apache OpenOffice'.Īt least two other enterprises have claimed the OpenOffice brand name internationally, one in the office space rental business and one providing information mining/document search services for 'office data'. At one time the use of just 'OpenOffice' as the marketing name of 'our' office suite was blocked by commercial initiatives.

The folks at your tech department may have a faint recollection of historical issues with the OpenOffice brand licensing.

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