On 3 Jun 2011, at 19:59, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > 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.
It could just be that the author was trying hard to be positive. S. -- 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
