On 01/06/2011 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:51:09AM -0700, NoOp wrote: > > <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?
I actually asked for a clarification in one of the first comments (#7 at above link), more than 48 hours ago, but nothing happened so far. Either the sentence just means that the code in OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice dating back to around 15 years ago was at that time proprietary (and this would be totally irrelevant in context, and I wouldn't know why someone would write it and relate it to "key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice")... ...or it means that people who wrote that blog post know that Oracle released more than just the OpenOffice.org code (and here the candidates would obviously be the proprietary components of "Oracle Open Office": incremental updates, Alfresco plugin, migration tools... why not, even Oracle Cloud Office). I hope that the right interpretation is the latter, since this would mean a significant advance available for OpenOffice.org-based suites. But I really cannot guess what the statement meant. The OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal does not contain elements that would justify that sentence in the Document Foundation statement. Regards, Andrea. -- 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
