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Charles-H. Schulz wrote
On this list (a few others as well but esp. On this one) people call
LibreOffice "LO". We -sorry to take on my founder's hat here- never called
LibreOffice LO. 

Acronyms / nicknames / shortcuts are rarely at the discretion of the one
being named. If the "O" in LibreOffice had been lowercase, then there /may/
have been a chance to prevent this, but that is long past now. People will
shorten it as they can e.g., "LO", "LibO", LibreO", "LOffice", etc.


Charles-H. Schulz wrote
Now you will tell me that it is easier to type LO than it is with
LibreOffice. Perhaps. But everyone here writes MS Office...

OOo for OpenOffice.org, AOO for Apache OpenOffice, LO for LibreOffice, MSO
for Microsoft Office are all acronyms I use, here on the mailing lists, at
the AskLO site, and at the original support forum. Even the source code is
filled with "lo" and "LO" (e.g., LO4Android) for the same reason. I am not
meaning to be antagonistic by stating this, I am just presenting facts. What
you are asking is akin to suggesting people refrain from using "MS" for
Microsoft or "FB" for Facebook. The chance of success would seem improbably
low.

Best wishes, Owen.



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