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The OpenOfficeMouse is still a mouse, but is not quite OpenOffice
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It seems that ugly looking 18-button having OpenOfficeMouse is not quite backed by OpenOffice. According to the back story here, the OpenOfficeMouse was presented at the recent OOoConference in Italy and that is where the story should have ended, at least with the OpenOfficeMouse name anyway.
As I mentioned in the last post, the mouse is, now was, being called the OpenOfficeMouse, but is actually being made by a company called WarMouse.
Long story short, it seems that WarMouse did not have the proper authorization to use the OpenOffice name and logo. Of course, the WarMouse team claim just the opposite and have stated that they have written permission in the form of emails.
Maybe, maybe not, because WarMouse has also decided that they will change the name of the mouse and cease using the OpenOffice logo.
I have not seen a new official name, but it seems to be just a shortened version—OOMouse. And with that somehow this story seems a little better knowing that the OpenOfficeMouse was never really an OpenOffice mouse. That said, the mouse is still ugly, but I still want to play around with it. Of course, remembering those 18-buttons is likely to be difficult.
Via [Engadget]
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