Hi :) I think IBM have a lot of power in this relationship. If Oracle are being slow about passing IBMs contribution to Apache then i think IBM might be able to make that happen faster.
I heard that Oracle and Apache are in court fighting each other at the moment or fairly recently about things that are nothing to do with OOo. Oracle seemed to be just playing with OOo without any really clear objectives other than just trying to make money from it somehow. They seemed to treat it as though it was a mill-stone around their neck because of it's OpenSource part. Apache have a strong passion for projects that are at least partly OpenSource. IBM seems to need OOo to be developed with strength and determination to be strongly viable against MS Office rather than just being allowed to crumble. So it seems that IBM were able to push Oracle into handing OOo to Apache who are not struggling as much as Oracle possibly hoped. Perhaps delaying the transfer of IBM's gift is the most they can do to make things difficult for Apache? Maybe IBM has some leverage there? Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: From: Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] IAccessible2 / LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 9 September, 2011, 3:46 I haven't looked into this issue as much as others, but what's left here for IBM to do? It sounds like they've already donated the code. BTW, who in IBM did you contact? I used to know some of the guys working on accessibility inside IBM. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
