>To: [email protected] >From: "Harold Fuchs" <[email protected]> >Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software > Foundation'sIncubator >Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:30:55 +0100 >Lines: 44 >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >References: ><[email protected]><[email protected]><[email protected]><[email protected]> > <[email protected]> >X-Complaints-To: [email protected] >X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wolfeden.demon.co.uk >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 >Archived-At: <http://go.mail-archive.com/v2Te-OvK-n2AXfcaH1TnsB07g60=> >Reply-To: [email protected] >Errors-To: [email protected] >Precedence: list >List-Id: <discuss.documentfoundation.org> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Archive: <http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/> >List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> >List-Owner: <mailto:[email protected]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type="original" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > >"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-Apach= >e-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 fol= >k = > >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 o= >f = > >potential users. >
This is bizarre; there is strength in competition. The beauty of gnu/linux is the variety in distributions; the world is big enough for OO and LO and many others to adopt the DF ODF standard. >Oh, and by the way, get rid of the asinine name "LibreOffice" which half th= >e = > >world can't pronounce and which three quarters of the world doesn't = > >understand the meaning of. > This seems a ludicrous statement to make. Perhaps you should learn another language, especially living in probably the most linguistically diverse city in the world. -- 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
