Samer Mansour wrote:
On Jun 7, 2013 10:35 AM, "Kadal Amutham" wrote:
Why both AOO and LO, which are open source, are required in this world? Can
just one serve the purpose?
Everybody used to be more or less happy with OpenOffice until late 2010.
A group decided to fork OpenOffice (which is perfectly allowed by the
license) back then and to start a separate product. I could maybe
understand that there is a justification for having two products, but
I've always believed that this does not imply having two communities.
But if its causing volunteers pain then I would express that to the PMC/
mailing list. They don't know if you don't speak up.
The PMC already knows. Some PMC members already collaborate (as
individuals) to both projects. What I would like to see happening, and
hasn't so far, is some form of official cooperation. For license
reasons, the OpenOffice code can freely be reused (and it does get
reused), so working on OpenOffice (code, QA, translations) automatically
benefits all derived programs.
But honestly I don't think there is a need for further discussion of
this issue, besides what Louis wrote: the OpenOffice project should be
better, much better, in communicating that innovation happens at Apache
(or, at least, ALSO at Apache). The OpenOffice 4.0 release is an
excellent opportunity for this, so let's try not to miss it.
Regards,
Andrea.
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