We all wish for more frequent, more major releases. 4.1.x is just a
number...
No one will report you to the International Software Police if the next
release will be 4.1.5 and have ten times more bug fixes and a dozen new
features :)
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
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The way to treat such people:
1. Change our software license so any code sharing between us and them
becomes impossible.
2. Arrange legally for the brand name they so desire to be forever
unavailable even if our project will be terminated in the future.
3. Ignore them.
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:52
Many companies were affected in the recent cyber attack.
It shouldn't be hard to find a company sick of Microsoft...
Why not Deutsche Bahn or Renault for example?
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Hagar Delest
wrote:
> The only one I would see is Canonical. But i still don't understand why
> the
About the locate (from the wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20040610062016/http://projects.openoffice.org:80/accepted.html
About the convince:
IMHO a personal meeting with a German volunteer is best.
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> If you can see a way
Maybe we should try to locate and convince people who used to work during
Star and Sun Microsystems to rejoin the project?
Perhaps instead of votes users can offer monetary compensation for solving
bugs (many users offering a tiny sum each can result in a reasonable
incentive)?
What about merging i
I can give it a try (please bear in mind I read here out of curiosity, I'm
not a developer).
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Marcus wrote:
> @esh1907:
> Are you ready to actually help here?
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> Marcus
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IMHO good idea.
Our suite should have a "Report a Bug" in Help menu under "About
OpenOffice".
The average user shouldn't reach a cumbersome platform like Bugzilla to
report a bug.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
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> Maybe this has been discussed already.
> But how abo
But for releases and interesting stuff, people are needed ("chicken or the
egg")...
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Peter Kovacs
wrote:
> Nah. That will not attract people.
> Releases and interesting stuff going on will.
>
> Names are sound and smoke...
> Old truth in IT.
> Big Data Buzzword ha
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
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> We are openly decleared dead.
> Peter
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> Why not keep the Open Office rights (so the TDF can not use them), but
rename the project - perhaps a new name will resurrect the project?
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Hagar Delest
wrote:
> So basically, what is the user base? Who should AOO focus on? For a
> company I doubt the price of MS Office is really a problem (they negotiate
> fees for sure). Since documents are mostly shared in .docx/.xlsx formats,
> why bother with ap
A model of 100% volunteer based software project is futile.
Only a combination of payed workers and volunteers is viable.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> On 11.01.2017 11:00, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote:
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>> Am 11.01.2017 um 09:44 schrieb Patricia Shanahan:
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>> For mos
No chance as long as Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of Apache.
The best thing that can happen to wonderful OpenOffice is to ditch Apache
for an independent commercial company.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Raphael Bircher
wrote:
> Hi at all
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> If we compare AOO to day with the good old Open
-1 for ASF+TDF
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:43 PM, suhail ansari
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Suhail and I have some suggestions for OpenOffice community.
>
> OpenOffice is very popular and it attracts large number of downloads. My
> suggestion is that Apache software foundation should talk to th
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