-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I get what's going on here with the new foundation being created, but I think the way the announcements are done is a bit confusing to the average person who is not an "insider" on the project.
Is LibreOffice a new fork of OOo, or is this essentially the same as when the Mozilla Foundation completely took over the Netscape/Firefox project? In other words, will new versions of OpenOffice.org continue to be developed and supported/made available for download at OpenOffice.org, or is OpenOffice.org (the product) now renamed LibreOffice, meaning all new development will take place under that moniker? And is LibreOffice Beta the same as OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta 1, but rebranded? What's the relationship between the two? This has GOT to be confusing to the average user. I've been fairly involved in OOo for years, and *I'm* confused about what's happening here. Can someone clear this up a bit? (FWIW, this has historically been one of the major roadblocks to adoption of more open source software--especially linux--by "regular" consumers. The software seems to be designed by and for developers because the announcements and documentation are all aimed at the "in crowd" who understand what it means to compile, what a "distro" is, and what a "fork" is. Joe Sixpack has no way of understanding what most of the software is, let alone distinguish between versions and understand how to install and use the software. If the idea is to make open source software more prominent, there has to be a better effort on the part of the open source community--for all projects--to be less "developer" oriented and to be more "consumer" oriented in documentation and promotion.) - -- Steven Shelton Deputy Undersecretary for Made-up Titles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyjRbcACgkQO+AD2HqgRoBwKQCeJ/EYRJArLml9pmbJP7US/JRN ryIAnjW5AROn+Ia5YHK1E2l/lkjfByWw =wTx6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/