On 25.07.2013 12:24, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> Please NO trademark war against Linux distributions. > > nobody wants a trademark war, we simply want that it is taken careful > and don't underestimate the power of our brand. > > I really would like to collaborate with the distros and also with > volunteers of LibreOffice. > > The question is how wec an collaborate with LO best, the current > approach how they take stuff from AOO is damaging open source in > general. They can take it but the communication how they do it is key > here. And to be honest I have no respect for this but I also believe > that this is only driven by a smaller group of people and not the > broad LO community.
That isn't a problem caused by the GNU/Linux-distributionsor their maintainers. It's caused by some LO-developers. > > I hope they will see the benefit of closer collaboration in the future. > That would be the best - especially for the users of a Free office-suite. > > Linux distros will hopefully be more open if we can find maintainers > who are interested to help and improve our building and packaging > process. This is a minimal requirements to find the way back into the > distros. Maybe not all but the ones that are open and believe in open > source. > We have to find out the needs and necessities of the distros. And we need people who are willing and able to package AOO in the distros' way. That's not easy. >> >> As I told some weeks ago we need volunteers to maintain Apache >> OpenOffice in each GNU/Linux Distributions. > > agree that is key for all further steps to fnd the way back in any > distro. We need people who are interested to help here in this area > There a not a lot of people in the world who are able and willing to do that. AOO (and LibrOffice also) is really a beast of code. Regards Michael
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