On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I just read this article [1] on the Register: "Apache devs: 'We'll ship no > OpenOffice before its time'" > > It is sad that it has the usual misinformation: > > - "... most of the original OpenOffice developers had already jumped ship to > the rival LibreOffice fork,..." >
If you read it in Wikipedia it must be true. > when in reality most original OpenOffice developers are now working in > completely different companies and do not work on OpenOffice or LibreOffice > at all anymore. > > > - "Since then, the Apache developers have devoted most of their time to > cleaning up the code and resolving licensing issues, but have done > relatively little in the way of adding new features." > That is the same old tripe. The license work was done from October 27th through December 23rd 2011. But they claim that took most of our time. > then what have I and a lot of others done in the past few months if not > working on the sidebar? > > The comments are even more one sided and sometimes close to hostile. > I think that we really have to start to counter such negative propaganda and > not just endure it. > It is El Reg. One should not have high expectations. > Otherwise we might end up like NASA and the moon landing. Google for "nasa > moon landing" and the third link is the wiki page about moon landing > conspiracy theories, which is longer than the page about the actual moon > landings. I once read that NASA did not oppose the moon hoax because they > thought it would go away on its own but eventually realized that it didn't. > When we don't tell the public that we are neither the bad guys nor are > particularly lazy then we will keep getting bad press. > Ship code and the real press will cover it. Talk about code and we'll just get El Reg and similar. -Rob > Regards, > Andre > > [1] > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/11/apache_openoffice_ship_when_ready/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
