Alex, this mailing list is absolutely not appropriate for this list. You can discuss these issues on [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FYI, OOo is covered by OIN. Thanks, Charles. Alex Thurgood a écrit : > 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
