Why the .org on OpenOffice

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 09:06, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> Does anyone know why the guys from OpenOffice do not drop the .org on
> the product name? It would be a lot more professional if the name was
> "OpenOffice 1.1" instead of "OpenOffice.org 1.1" don't you think?

>From http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#6

Why should we say "OpenOffice.org" instead of simply "OpenOffice"? 
        
        The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else.
        Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this
        open source project and its software.

Cheers,

Jeremy