Competition breads competence. Let there be two groups, two paths, two products.
In fact, I hope that the groups co-exist but go on completely separate management styles and feature direction. The fact that it might potentially lead to two in-compatible code-bases or at the very least, not a very clean future base for cross-pollination doesn't affect my opinion. OpenOffice is not the linux kernel. Let there be fire, everywhere. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: > > "plino" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> As a user I wouldn't be happy IF the devs split up between two projects. >> >> The way I see it is IBM and maybe some Oracle devs will work on OOo and >> everybody else will work on LO... >> >> The good part (besides the Apache license which allows LO to use what >> little >> code will be openly contributed to OOo) is that IBM will continue to >> develop >> ODF, which badly needs it. >> >> I find it a little absurd that the people behind a file format that has >> been >> under development for years haven't implemented font embedding... Of >> course, >> fonts are not important for serious business companies :) >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Oracle-contributes-OOo-Code-to-Apache-Software-Foundation-s-Incubator-tp3011527p3018856.html >> Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > The LO folk left the OOo group because OOo was, in their opinion, going to > be over-controlled (by Oracle). Now that this is no longer true, the LO folk > don't have a case and should return to the fold. So, why don't the LO folk > do a deal with Apache, combine the best bits of OOo with LO to get back to a > single "product" and form jointly with the Apache folk an "LO Foundation". > It seems completely crazy to have two sets of developers and two sets of > code. All that does is sow FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in the minds of > potential users. > > Oh, and by the way, get rid of the asinine name "LibreOffice" which half the > world can't pronounce and which three quarters of the world doesn't > understand the meaning of. > > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
