Hazel:
I was revisiting this old mails (basically to put them in
Trash) and found a little thing that sounds strange to me:
"The Foundation holds all rights to the project and was legally
founded on 17.02.2012"
It was founded so late as in 2012? I thought that was last year its
foundation.
Sorry if this is too little and found my mail annoying, but I was
confused.
Regards
Lailah
El lun, 09-04-2012 a las 13:52 +0100, Hazel Russman escribió:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:40:29 +0200
> klaus-jürgen weghorn ol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Hazel,
> > Thanks for that.
> > I changed it in the wiki (and wait for the other paragraphs ;-)).
> >
> > --
> > Grüße
> > k-j
> >
>
> OpenOffice.org
> In May 2002, the first official version was released: OpenOffice.org 1.0 was
> born. The final version of the 1.x series appeared as 1.1.5 in September 2005.
>
> OpenOffice.org 2.x
> In October 2005, OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released. The user interface was
> updated and Base was added. ODF was the new standard format for all modules.
> The 2.x code branch was long maintained, with OpenOffice.org 2.4.3 being
> published in September 2009.
>
> OpenOffice.org 3.x
> OpenOffice.org 3.0 released in October 2008, was again greatly extended. The
> adaptation to the various user interfaces provided by the supported operating
> systems and MacOS has been improved, with a native version now supported as
> well. The latest version of this development is the OpenOffice.org 3.3.0,
> released in January 2011.
>
> Autonomy and rights
> The supreme governing body of the project was the Community Council, elected
> by the members, which however had virtually no influence on the main
> processes of development at Sun. The release of the code as open source was
> planned with all rights to the name, etc. to be transferred to a foundation
> still to be established. As a basis for this, some developers at Sun
> Microsystems founded as a precursor the association "OpenOffice.org team"
> which received donations for the project in order to support various
> marketing campaigns. By 2009, this body managed the rights to the name
> "OpenOffice.org". To improve the policing of infringements, the trademark in
> 2009 transferred to Sun Microsystems.
>
> Sun/Oracle
> Throughout this time, Sun Microsystems had taken a large role in the
> development of the code, supported primarily by the community, but also by
> other software companies such as Novell and IBM. In 2009, Oracle made a
> takeover bid for its rival Sun, which was economically depressed, and after
> approval by the antitrust authorities, this acquisition was completed in
> January 2010. The development department of OpenOffice.org in Hamburg was
> included only on the condition that it was profitable in itself.
>
> Transfer of the code to Apache
> In April 2011, Oracle announced the recruitment of professional support for
> OpenOffice.org and announced the conversion to a community-based project. In
> early June 2011 the source code and all trademark rights was given to the
> Apache Foundation. OpenOffice.org continues to be developed significantly
> there, with IBM as a major contributor.
>
> The Document Foundation / LibreOffice
> In September 2010, some of the developers, in particular volunteers from the
> community, announced the establishment of "The Document Foundation" to allow
> the program to continue independently of Oracle with the product name
> "LibreOffice".
>
> LibreOffice
> LibreOffice 3.3.0 was presented as a beta in September 2010 and published on
> January 25, 2011. Unlike the approach in OpenOffice.org LibreOffice is
> developed in strict accordance with a time-based release plan. Several code
> branches are maintained in parallel and supplied with corrections.
>
> The Document Foundation
> The Foundation holds all rights to the project and was legally founded on
> 17.02.2012 [1]. The necessary foundation capital (a minimum amount of Euro
> 50,000) was raised by a campaign in February 2011 and collected within eight
> days. The members of the Foundation chose a board of directors in accordance
> with the Bylaws , which controls the fate of the Foundation. Further
> information is contained in the Geschaeftsordnung (Bylaws).--
> --
>
> H Russman
>
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