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
>>
>>
>

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