On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On 5/24/06, David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On of the issues about OOo marketing I have not fully understood is that > >OpenOffice development plans are to some extent controlled by StarOffice > >needs. And they seem to be focusing on business. > > > >Maybe there is a separate StarOffice marketing arm that needs to be > >lobbied ? > > Long term, the real solution is that OOo needs to be spun off as an > independent organization a la Mozilla. I really do not think this > structure can work very much longer. Get Sun and IBM and Novell to put > up a few million (or tens of million) dollars, and there might be a > fighting chance. > > I have been contemplating raising this issue with the project leads, > though no doubt this would make a lot of people unhappy.
ok, but how about in the short-to-medium-term? matt > > Bruce > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
