On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:51:09AM -0700, NoOp wrote: >> On 06/01/2011 09:23 AM, M Henri Day wrote: >> > 2011/6/1 NoOp ... >> >> More: >> >> < >> >> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm >> >> > >> >> >> >> It will be interesting to see how this works out & how TDF will work >> >> with ASF. >> >> >> > >> > Fascinating, NoOp - wheels within wheels ! Thanks for posting this !... >> > >> > Henri >> > >> >> TDF's Statement: >> <http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-about-oracles-move-to-donate-openoffice-org-assets-to-the-apache-foundation/> > > TDF's statement included : > > "Today we welcome Oracle’s donation of code that has previously been > proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key > user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice." > > Since when is OOo proprietary? >
There are probably some proprietary components that were added to the StarOffice product, and did not make it to OpenOffice.org. I would have preferred the above statement to have two commas placed in there, as in "Today we welcome Oracle’s donation of code, that has previously been proprietary, to the Apache Software Foundation. It is great to see key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice." Simos -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
