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		technomancy on Oct 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LibreOffice is one > OpenOffice was such a nice, clean name. Actually technically it was called OpenOffice.org, which is pretty silly.

Osiris on Oct 5, 2011 [–]

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.

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