On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jörg Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I myself am not directly in the (international) marketing active, but there > is a point which, in my opinion, deserves attention: > > In public, at least in Germany, there are still uncertainties about the legal > situation in OpenOfffice. > Repeating is always the talk of the OpenOffice still belongs to Oracle. > Currently example here: > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Re-LibreOffice-oder-OpenOffice/forum-261571/msg-23871091/read/ > > It would be good if we take steps to inform the public about these things > too, especially about the OenOffice, legally, is 100% Apache. > Especially in Germany rumors regarding Oracle hurt us very much, especially > in DEutschland LibreOffice is particularly strong because the TDF is based > here. >
Do you think the person saying this is honestly confused? Or is he intentionally spreading FUD? Any press about Oracle and Apache OpenOffice has been about their donation of it to Apache. I don't know how anyone could get any other impression. We can always respond to such posts at say that their information is several years out of date, that OpenOffice is now with the Apache Software Foundation, an non-profit group of open source volunteers, with support from over 30 corporations: Then point them to this page: https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html Or would it help to have something like this in an FAQ that we can easily point users to? -Rob > > I demand nothing special that needs to be done immediately, but I think the > problem that deserves attention. > > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
