We're working on it (River, that is)!
Cheers, Greg. On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:49, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and > >> migration > >> from OpenOffice.org.", I am probably reading too much into it, but why is > >> there not a statement that Oracle intend to continue development once > >> the transition is complete? > > > > Most likely because they don't intend to. > > This should be clearly spelled out if it's the intention. I'd also > like to see how the community plans to cope with such a major loss of > experience and know-how. > > A related example is the Apache River podling that nearly died when > the then Sun employees were pulled out of the project, which left next > to nobody to look after the codebase. Only with major efforts by > mentors and new contributors was the project salvaged, but even now > it's only a shadow of what Jini used to be. I'd hate to see the same > happen to OpenOffice. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Greg Trasuk, President StratusCom Manufacturing Systems Inc. - We use information technology to solve business problems on your plant floor. http://stratuscom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
