Re: Fwd: [OFF-LIST] RE: End of AOO

2016-09-06 Thread Maurice Howe
Thanks, Andrea. You surely know how dull-witted we Americans are, so... Again, I want to applaud the work you guys & gals do to keep AOO humming. It's a great product (although not a "product" in the usual sense). Brian Barker is a "standout", as are Dennis and many others. My Thanks! I've

Re: Fwd: [OFF-LIST] RE: End of AOO

2016-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Maurice Howe wrote: Apologies. Hope he wasn't offended. Every language has its quirks (American English sure does!), and as in the case of "Andrea" in Italy -- norms. Again, my apologies. No problem at all. I don't see why one should be offended be a simple and common misunderstanding, but

Fwd: [OFF-LIST] RE: End of AOO

2016-09-05 Thread Maurice Howe
-- Forwarded message -- From: Maurice Howe <mauriceh...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [OFF-LIST] RE: End of AOO To: Dennis Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> Apologies. Hope he wasn't offended. Every language has its quirks (American

Re: End of AOO

2016-09-05 Thread Maurice Howe
Atta girl! Few things are perfect, but AOO is mighty good, thanks to you and all the other volunteers. "Long Live Apache!" Maurice Howe On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > user wrote: > >> closing the door forever and let OO die. >> > > This (Apache

Re: End of AOO

2016-09-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
user wrote: closing the door forever and let OO die. This (Apache letting OpenOffice die) is not going to happen soon, and maybe it is never going to happen. We've already elaborated on how an unfortunate procedural message has been badly misunderstood, but new releases continue to be in

End of AOO

2016-09-05 Thread user
I hope that the active OOA-developers and Apache will give rights of the OpenOffice-brand to TDF before closing the door forever and let OO die. TDF has active delevopers and doing well process with LibreOffice, which is justed named LO because Oracle didnt give the rights on the name