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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by megaman821 on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:31AM (#2241914)
No it would be more like MS sues every software product with the word Office or Windows in it. Which they don't as evidenced by the existence of OpenOffice.

I am not trying to argue Microsoft is some white knight or anything else noble, just that Apple policies are worse but with better marketing.

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Re:Apple to Bonobo – Retina is trademarked, change your app ... by wisty on Sunday February 20, 2011 @09:40AM (#2241933)
I'm guessing that "Office" was already in use. "Word" certainly was (i.e. Word Perfect). So "OpenWord" would be probably be fine. On the other hand, don't try making an "OpenExcel" or an "OpenPowerpoint".
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