Thanks for the good reply Ariel! Eventually, there is an official statement from Oracle available now:
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/177158 So you see, Oracle is still very committed to OpenOffice.org! Malte. Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote, On 10/12/10 02:08: > On Monday 11 October 2010, 13:24, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: >> Come on, Oracle, do the decent thing. >> >> Release all the code, trademarks, everything to OOo back to the >> community, currently called LibreOffice. >> >> If you do - lots of people will thank you. Even the ones who keep going >> to OpenOffice.org and don't realise it has changed ownership. >> >> If you don't - the software of OpenOffice.org will stagnate and the brand >> name will be ruined. LibreOffice will implement all the stuff Sun has >> held back due to licensing issues and, unless OO.org simply recompiles and >> re-badges, LibreOffice will grown and become much stronger. >> >> There's nothing to stop you joining the community and still having your >> own flavour of this great package. >> >> It's good karma for all concerned if you do this ;-) > > I am astonished by the naïveté of comments like this. > > I guess you all do not follow LibreOffice's mailing list > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-September/thread.html > what seems to be the developer's list > > You can look at the Minutes of first LibreOffice technical group call > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-September/000002.html > > LibreOffice's technical group seems to be basically Go-oo with another name... > http://go-oo.org/about/ > >> >> Release all the code, trademarks, everything to OOo back to the >> community, currently called LibreOffice. >> > > I'm not sure yet if TDF is the "Community", I did not make up my mind yet. > But why should Oracle give up everything to Go-oo under another name? > I know nothing about business, but it sounds delirious. > > Notice that I'm not talking pro-Oracle here, nor against TDF. I'm just > remarking something quite obvious, as reading the names of the developer's on > a mailing list.... I'm sure people at Oracle can read them too. > > Regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
