Don't forget the child prodigies that have been working on it since they were 5.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM, theUser BL <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> What is the advantage of the Apache OpenOffice.org Fork? >> >> Currently there are two point of views what a OOo fork is and what not. >> >> If you look at the trademark and logo, then LibreOffice is the fork. >> >> But if you look at all other things, like where all the old OOo developer >> are working and so on, then LibreOffice is the new OpenOffice.org and the >> Apache OpenOffice.org is the fork. >> > > How do you define old? I see a lot of experienced OOo developers > working at Apache, some with 10 or even 15 years experience. But I > don't think I'd call them "old". Maybe "middle aged"? > >> For me (and not only for me) developer are much more important then project >> logos and names. And so for me (and not only for me) Apache OpenOffice.org >> with its new developers is the fork. >> >> >> I have seen, how OpenOffice.org changed after the core team changed to >> LibreOffice. >> Ok, at this point I want to mention icons. Have a look at this screenshot of >> OOo from the old team: >> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/img/preview_screenshots/openoffice11.png >> and then have a look at the icons of the OOo after the core team have left: >> http://t3n.de/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/OpenOffice_org_33.jpg >> All icons looking at the first view identical. Same colors, similar look. >> >> OpenOffice.org have had a philosophy behind a lot of things. Here the >> coloring spcs of the old OOo: >> http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy_mimetype.html >> As there stand "The language of colors are one of the most important >> identifier to differ between all of OpenOffice.org applications.". >> But the Apache OpenOffice.org fork have forgotten it. >> >> But the team, who have written the spec, have at LibreOffice created new >> icons with the same philosophy: >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons >> >> Thats for example. >> >> And no one other, then the people at LibreOffice understanding the code base >> of the Office Suite better. >> >> >> So what is the advantage of your OpenOffice.org fork? What will Apache OOo >> do better then LibreOffice? >> >> >> >> Greatings >> theuserbl >> >> >
