Using the Tables brand/trade name for a spreadsheet application

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 Mar, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 7 March 2012 15:10, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:
> 
> > The Abacus Spreadsheet Formula compiler:
> > http://code.google.com/p/formulacompiler/
> > from the Abacus Research AG (1985-today):
> > http://www.formulacompiler.org/download/abacus.htm
> >
> > I really think we should not rename to Abacus if we do not plan to make some
> > lawyers even more rich.
> 
> This is going insane if we go this way (Thorsten, please don't click! ;) ):
> 
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28956/presentation-stage
> 
> Abacus is as common term as Spreadsheet. Of course so do Windows is...

But abacus isn't descriptive of what calligra tables is. The application is not an abacus; it's a spreadsheet. And that makes a lot of difference.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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