[discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread M. Fioretti
Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794 -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you:

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:43:59 -0500, M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794 Well I read the interview and

[discuss] Re: Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirelynegative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Twayne
Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794 Good reading; thanks. - To

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 10:43:20 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Well I read the interview and seems that Michael didn't said anything we didn't really already know. that is true, but it's interesting to see certain things covered outside the usual circles. One thing I appreciated is that

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:13:28 -0500, M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This remind me of the conference call we had with management at Sun and could personally confirm many fears from Sun on topics of ownership and managing criteria. Interesting. Would it be possible to know more about

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 11:20:12 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: This remind me of the conference call we had with management at Sun and could personally confirm many fears from Sun on topics of ownership and managing criteria. Interesting. Would it be possible to know more about this?

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:26:47 +0100 Ian Lynch wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:13 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 10:43:20 AM -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Well I read the interview and seems that Michael didn't said anything we didn't really already know. that is

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:55:21 -0500, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually thought IBM was very close to forking it for that reason. But given the size in MB of IBMs Office Suite offering i am not sure i want their fork. IBM forked OOo back in 2003/4 and create a product called

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, M. Fioretti wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:43:59 +0200 From: M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: discuss@openoffice.org, M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely

[discuss] Re: Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread NoOp
On 07/28/2008 08:54 PM, Bret Busby wrote: And, I wonder whether his gogo software, corrupts files, such as the malicious corruption of HTML files, the same way that Open Office 2.4.x corrupts the files, by maliciously inserting code, against the wishes of the user, causing vi to be the

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:31:07 -0500, M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? What do you mean? HTML created by OOo (or any other office suite, afaict) is damn ugly and possibly not W3C compliant, but corrupted by maliciously inserting code??? Actually is pretty compliant just horribly

Re: [discuss] Re: Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, NoOp wrote: BTW: what on earth does VI have to do with anything regarding OOo? VI is far superior, for editing (creating and modifying) HTML files, to using Open Office. VI does not insert code, change fonts, etc, which Open Office does. What kind of editor, when

Re: [discuss] Sun dropping out of OO.o development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing

2008-07-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, M. Fioretti wrote: as far as I'm concerned, you're really preaching to the choir here :-) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I wasn't aware of that article. Thank you for that. One thing of particular concern in that article, and it makes Novell