On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2011-12-13, at 10:43 , Rob Weir wrote: > >> This may be a bit hard to imagine, since OOo never really developed >> this kind of ecosystem. This was due to license and control issues. >> But we have the opportunity now to encourage a healthier ecosystem. > > You are in error. Actually, OOo did develop numerous such ecosystems where > one could donate funds or contribute work. These were autonomously managed, > for the most part, by the NLC projects. But we also used a central dyad, SPI > and TeamOOo, and the contributions were from users. >
Not truly autonomous if they were relying on using the OpenOffice.org trademark and suggesting that they officially represented the project. So we never really had that degree of independence. -Rob
