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Old 8th December 2010
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The KDE community has announced that the KOffice project will in future be known as the Calligra Suite. According to the announcement, "The new name reflects the wider value of the KOffice technology platform beyond just desktop office applications".
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Bad move if you ask me....
KOffice was easy to remember and name itself expressed everything... it was an Office

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Calligra Suite, what's that? What it does.... Heck I need Office... Where's OpenOffice, MS office..... office
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I think changing the word processor name to Words is just asking to be sued by Microsoft. Which is probably good PR, I guess.
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That's crazy, since that is one of the few trademarks they don't have

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...e-1475352.html
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Bad move if you ask me....
KOffice was easy to remember and name itself expressed everything... it was an Office

They of course meant to name it the Caligula Suite but found that was taken by an obscure prog. rock band named Recreation.
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