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=== Naming === The project and software were informally referred to as ''OpenOffice'' since the Sun release, but since this term is a [[trademark]] held by Open Office Automatisering in [[Benelux]] since 1999,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/orange-launches-open-office/|title=Orange launches 'Open Office'|first=David|last=Meyer|work=ZDNet Networking|publisher=ZDNet|date=4 September 2007|access-date=22 June 2013|archive-date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018133813/http://www.zdnet.com/orange-launches-open-office-3039289058/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://openoffice.nl/merkenregistratie|title=over het merk "Open Office"|language=nl|trans-title=about the brand "Open Office"|publisher=Openoffice.nl|access-date=27 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823152257/http://www.openoffice.nl/merkenregistratie|archive-date=23 August 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ''OpenOffice.org'' was its formal name.<ref name="openoffice1">{{cite web |url = http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616005802/http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4 |archive-date = 16 June 2010 |title = Why should we say "OpenOffice.org" instead of simply "OpenOffice" |work = OpenOffice.org Frequently Asked Questions |date = 16 June 2010 |access-date = 27 June 2013 |quote = ''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. |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all }}</ref> Due to a similar trademark issue (a [[Rio de Janeiro]] company that owned that trademark in Brazil), the [[Brazilian Portuguese]] version of the suite was distributed under the name BrOffice.org from 2004, with BrOffice.Org being the name of the associated local nonprofit from 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broffice.org/sobre|title=Sobre o BrOffice.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120111119/http://broffice.org/sobre|archive-date=20 November 2010|date=7 July 2006|language=pt|access-date=16 October 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> (BrOffice.org moved to LibreOffice in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=LibreOffice Development Extends To Brazil|url=http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2010/12/06/libreoffice-development-extends-to-brazil/|publisher=The Document Foundation|date=6 December 2010|first=Florian|last=Effenberger|access-date=24 January 2011|archive-date=17 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317124020/http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2010/12/06/libreoffice-development-extends-to-brazil/|url-status=live}}</ref>)
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