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Michael Schmidt a écrit : > On 7/30/07, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> integrated as Outlook and Microsoft Office are. >> >> > > outlook *is* a component of office. > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > >> Hope it helps, >> > > ok. but let me ask: helps whom? helps what? for which goal? > > - helping OOo to get the missing emailclient? > presumably yes. > - helping persons, by saing not: good cow coder, bad cow managerial? > ??? > - helping TB to stay within Mozilla? > - helping OOo not need to give the handshake, by waiting the TB Coders do it? > Sorry I am afraid I don't understand what you're saying here. > >> wish TB to join the OpenOffice.org project, they simply >> can request it. >> > > It has been requested on the mailinglist: OOo needs an Email Client > and Instant Messenger. Ideally both under one hood/gui > > so please decide, and if the core developers are not joining, then it > is a fork-partnership. > a fork by whom? > What is the difference, by Scott requesting a Mailclient in OOo or > anyone else in OOo? > OOo Dev should know the history of the lack of an Emailclient, so I > wounder why there is no initiative now. > Okay. Perhaps you misread my former statements: There is right now, a project aiming at the integration of Thunderbird and Lightning inside OOo. It started without Thunderbird being spun off from Mozilla. > ;-) > > This is, why I wrote yesterday to the HR department of SUN, to start > an initiative to employ them. > Sorry. I am not a Sun employee and besides, who are you write to Sun HR? Do you work with Scott? Did he tell you to do it? > And I ask the OOo managerials to send feedback on that here on the > list, or to decide, if in this critical situation of the death of the > bird a fork-partnership is planned and implemented for OOo. > I suggest you wait until the answer of the "OOo Managerials" then. :-) > We should set with the community a timeline, in which the managerials > of OOo declare, if or what they have done to find a solution, and with > which result. > > Things look not brighter, the more nights you sleep. > So I hope, the decision is soon done (and not "far-fetched") and told > to the community: > If or if not OOo get´s an open source Email-Cient (which could be > based on TB code or on core-dev-ls knowledge). > > Don´t get me wrong, OOo can decide it anytime to add email or > serverless IM functionalities to OpenOffice, but for the case of > Thunderbird, the time is nowerdays. > > Kind regards Michael. > > PS: Sun uses a lot of money to be neck to neck with Microsoft. Use > this money for TB. > It is really not a question to make a fork or a friendly-overtake of > TB. It fits the strategy. Outlook is Office ! so don´t get in identity > turbulence with the birds flying around your head, sun! So let´s wait > for the feedback of the headquarter. > You seem to imply that Sun decides everything in OOo, or that OOo is only made of Sun. That's quite a wrong assumption. Sun is certainly a very important member of our community, but it's far to be the only one. And besides, Thunderbird can join the project without the need of a corporate agreement of Sun. Best, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
