James Wilde wrote: > As I understand it, most of the development team of OOo jumped ship to > set up LibO in anticipation of Oracle making unacceptable changes to the > OOo concept. I don't know how many they are, but I'd be surprised if > they're over 30, and as far as I and most users are concerned, they > "own" the product.
We don't "own" anything. We have simply started the process, and we have tried to push it forward putting all our enthusiasm and energies behind it. The process has started a long time before the conference in Budapest, where there have not been any "parallel" or "secret" sessions. We have been there as regular OOo community members. As far as the process of creation of the group is concerned, I would say that has been very "natural": i.e. we have started discussing the problem over beers at OOo conferences, then we have started to write emails and sometimes discuss the subject over the phone or Skype. Those that were in the loop are part of the group of founding members: there has not been any deliberate process for bringing in "friends". We have all "earned" - if I can use this term - the right to belong to the group based on merit and contribution. > But the point is, the 30 or whatever developers have been planning this > for some time. They didn't launch LibO after a beer last Friday, and > they, for better or worse, chose LibreOffice as the name. There is one single concept that has not been raised during the discussion about the name: the OOo (and now LibO) community is in the same marketplace as corporations with a turnover of tens of billions of dollars. Brand names and trademarks are key for protecting the software and the foundation, and our lawyers have suggested to come out with a name which was difficult or impossible to attack. I think that it is time to concentrate on the development of the community and the software. As far as I am concerned, LibreOffice is terrible for Italian speakers, but LibO is nice and cute, especially if you pronounce it with an accent on the last letter: Libò. In any case, thanks for the discussion. Your interest in the project shows that we are on the right track. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile: +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Email: italo.vign...@gmail.com - Skype: italovignoli -- 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/
