On 13-03-27, at 11:15 , Malte Timmermann <malte_timmerm...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi Louis, > > On 24.03.2013 00:38, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> >> On 13-03-23, at 19:11 , "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: >> >>> The server is GPL and the JavaScripts that run in clients, Outlook, etc., >>> are Creative Commons attribution-share-alike-noncommercial. None of that >>> is Apache friendly. >> >> Indeed; hence my wistful hope. >> >>> >>> More information: >>> >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange>. >>> The licenses apply to different parts of the code base. >>> >>> From this >>> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/open-xchange?trk=prof-following-company-logo> >>> I notice that Martin Holmichel is Senior Product Manager and that Malte >>> Timmerman is Head of Development in Hamburg. >> >> Quite. I am indeed sorry that both Malte and Martin chose this path but it's >> quite possible they chose wisely—let's see. >> > > Assuming that you talk about working for Open-Xchange now (instead of staying > full time OOo contributors), and not about the choice of licenses (which OX > is using for many years now): > > I guess most people here know that we didn't chose to stop working on OOo > full time, but that it was purely Oracle's decisions to - let's put it this > way - not to have an OOo team anymore… I'm actually laughing at your choice of words. Indeed, that was the decision, but in fairness to O., the seeds of self-destruction were planted early. Which is why I'm actually glad, if less gainfully employed, to see Apache OO and now Open-Xchange continue with developing the code in interesting ways. > > And believe me - with working for Open-Xchange now, Malte and Martin did > choose wisely :) Quite. > > Like did the many other people from the former Sun/Oracle OpenOffice.org > team, who now work in the OX Hamburg team too. > > Actually, these people make up a 100% of the Hamburg team. OX launched the > Hamburg site just for/with us. > Interesting. > OX is a nice place to work. Nice people, great product. > Open Source for a long time, now also with office productivity. > > Afterwards, everybody here is happy that Oracle gave us "the opportunity" to > work for Open-Xchange on OX Documents now - nobody is looking back. Right; none should. My interest is and always has been in seeing the future. But this is a public list, and I'd be happy to talk to old friends and colleagues off list. Less embarrassing, I suppose. :-) Cheers, Louis > > Malte. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
