Le lundi 14 mai 2007 20:MM, Kirill S. Palagin a écrit : > Can we stop this discussion please? > It has absolutely nothing with quality assurance of our product. >
Well I'm sorry to disagree, but legal compliance does have something to do with quality assurance, be it in services or products, at least in all of the companies I've worked for in the past. The fact that the QA group may not want to consider it as important is a completely different matter. In reply to Marco, please try and keep this to a reasoned discussion without stepping onto a Troll. Patents are here whether we like them or not, and they have served a purpose in our developing world. The fact that systems may or may not have been abused is nothing new when it comes to mankind's ingenuity for wreaking havoc and mischief amonst his fellow citizens. It's been done before, in other areas, for other purposes, and will happen again. The reason why I posted the link is because the OOo Community has marketed the release of 2.x versions with a "GET LEGAL, GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" campaign. Some of you might say that this was marketing project's idea and that QA has no need to concern itself with it. Indeed, it probably was, but as you can see, that kind of marketing tactic has direct repercussions on product quality, because in the end, we from QA, are doing nothing (or at least apparently) about checking the veracity of such statements with respect to our code, and people will inevitably ask the awkward question : is OOo's code really infringement free ? Bear in mind that the agreement between Sun and Microsoft does not protect the OpenOffice.org Community per se, merely Sun's activities and its own brand product. Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
