Hi Benjamin, > I am a fan of both products and the teams that are developing both. The > friction between them is really unfortunate, and harmful for the > community of users and developers.
I agree. > I don't see NeoOffice as completely different than OOo; I see them as > siblings, or a close team, but in any case, they are both office suites > that support ODF! The farther that ODF spreads, the more fertile ground > OOo has to compete in. Well, besides Eric's tension in the topic - which i think is indeed a bit harmful, though I'm sure he has his reasons - I think he's right in making a point that it's too different projects. The NeoOffice site states that more or less clearly. Just because they also support ODF doesn't make them OpenOffice.org. Abiword and KWord support ODF, too. To my taste, the terms OpenOffice and OpenDocument have not been separated enough in the media, recently. We should keep a clear distinction here, because promoting ODF is a completely different thing than promoting OpenOffice.org. > True, this list is for OOo, but there are times when it is relevant to > talk about other projects, and even to coordinate efforts with them. I > don't think a little bit of that is a bad thing; in fact it helps to > cement OOo's position at the center of this ecosystem. Well, i think that is just your decision in the end. You can initiate an OpenOffice.org ad or you can initiate a OpenOffice.org & NeoOffice ad. In this particular point i agree with Eric that a pure OpenOffice.org ad is better. But simply because it ads too much complexity to the ad (not graphically, but in content). If you'd do a Mac-only ad, I'd say put them both there. If you do a opensource office products ad, put them both there and add Abiword and KWord. If you do a ODF ad, add Workplace, StarOffice and Wordperfect as well. But if you do a cross-platform OpenOffice.org ad, stay with OpenOffice.org only. However, if you include NeoOffice, go to the NeoOffice folks and get them to promote the ad from their side as well. BTW: The new ad mockup looks way better. Still, next time, please coordinate your efforts with [email protected] . That's what we are there for. André. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
