Hi Lars, all,
I've been working on OOo's perception in public for some time and asked
the community's thoughts on several topics in this area.
They include removing OOo's branding from our document icons as well as
the question of promoting OOo as single integrated application instead
of several sub-apps with distinct icons.
Part of these questions affect our relation to MS Office and the way the
two office suites are presented in public.
But if you (and perhaps others) have the impression, that I don't see
the development of OOo as an independent application with it's own
goals, this impression is wrong.
On the other hand, OpenOffice.org would never have been the chance to
get a market share at it has now, if we hadn't tried to ease moving from
our competitors to OOo.
This includes similarity in look-and-feel, menu structure and other
areas. It was reasonable to have similar icon colors, comparable
applications, menu entries and features at that time - and this is part
of our history too.
I'm sorry if you feel offended by the word "copy" - I have never said or
meant that OOo would be a clone of MS Office, but if there are areas
where similarity has been a topic in past, this should be able to
pronounce while discussing a possible change in future.
This is neither trolling nor revisionism.
Best regards
Bernhard
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