I'm always a bit suspicious of posts where the author has found it necessary to shout in the subject line
does that author really think his/her contribution is more important than everyone else's? or maybe it's just an insecurity thing a bit like Linus being worried that someone might steal his security blanket? either way it doesn't seem to me that such posts are likely to take the core arguments anywhere that's useful cheers Mike Moller Lallybroch Alpacas New Zealand www.lallybroch.co.nz On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:40 AM, AG <[email protected]>wrote: > Wow! This has gotten tribal. > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [users] I AM WITH OOo > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:28:45 +0200 > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > > > > Hi *, > > there's lots of discussions about TDF and OOo on the lists those days. > > I saw that some people in TDF talk as if the "Community" were now TDF, > and OOo were just Oracle employees. That's not true at all. > > I don't work for Oracle, and I intend to keep contributing on my best > effort to OpenOffice.org. And I am conviced there's lot of people who > don't work for Oracle and they're going to keep in OOo, just because > they think it's best for them, for the project, maybe thay don't like > how things are going in TDF those first weeks, or whatever else. > > Furthermore, most developers are going to keep their contributions in > OOo. Oracle is paying 80% of the developers of OpenOffice, just for that > reason we can think they won't switch and at least 80% of developers > will remain. Some independent developers don't intend to move either. > More, I think Oracle is going to support OOo, not because their > altruism, but just because I think Oracle wants a strong OOo community > for its business. > > Anyway OOo is going to lose some of their members, so I think it's a > good time to show that a lot of people who are not involved with Oracle > is not going to switch to the TDF and we will keep our support to OOo. > We need to make clear OpenOffice.org is much more than just Oracle. > > OpenOffice.org is the best alternative to MS Office and getting its > current market share was just a dream 5 years ago. People who has > developed such application, mostly, are and will be in OpenOffice.org. > > So, I am with OpenOffice.org. I hope I wasn't the only one. :-) > > Greetings, > > Ra > > PS: Don't conclude from my message that I'm against TDF. I sincerily > hope the fork had a good product in the future. But I think they have a > hard way ahead. They will need a strong support from Novell, Red Hat and > others, much stronger than the support those companys have yield to OOo > before. And they will need to hire a lot of good programmers, let me > doubt if they will get that, as that means a lot of money. > > > > > > > > -- > E-mail to > [email protected]<discuss%[email protected]>for > instructions on how to unsubscribe > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
