On 2013-09-26, at 03:37 , Herbert Duerr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25.09.2013 20:31, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> NeoOffice, based on LibreOffice and licensed GPL, is being sold on Apple's >> App Store for 9.99 USD. This is not a problem; the GPL permits that. The >> source is also freely available and can be compiled; support, too, is >> available. > > I find it interesting that in this case Apple acts as the redistributor of > GPL material as the GPL has some redistribution clauses that other companies > with significant intellectual property portfolios would be much more cautious > about. > >> I tried compiling it and discovered I'd done something wrong. Shrug. So I >> bought the binaries and tested it. It seemed pretty much like it had been >> before, quite nice and also stable. I have not discovered bugs yet, but I've >> also not tested it sufficiently. >> >> I'd be curious to hear of others' opinions on it. NeoOffice has two very >> talented developers, one Ed Peterlin, was part of the great team that >> reinitiated the Mac OS X port for OOo, back in 2003-5, taking over from >> Sun's abandoned effort. (Sun then took it up, after some pressure.) > > They'd be very welcome to join the Apache OpenOffice project. As they > currently can take all of AOO's and LO's stuff and then focus on the Mac > aspects they can explore territory that the other projects haven't invested > enough resources in yet. > Agreed, they'd be welcome—but I honestly doubt that Ed or Patrick would be particularly interested. As far as I know, they like the kind of freedom that Planamesa (the company they formed to do NeoOffice) provides. Note, I've known them both a long time and used to be friends with Ed; Patrick, who is by all accounts a brilliant Java developer, was once with Sun, so I'd guess some in AOO's dev space know him or recall him from years past. I would rather not be the one to approach them.
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