On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:56, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 12/17/11 4:44 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> Surely that's just a matter of fact, though? When AOO makes a new release, >> it will be a different codebase under a different brand, so on both charts >> would show as a new block. > > why do you think that it is a different code base? It is exactly the code > base granted by Oracle to the ASF. Ok we cleaned up the code base, removed > external libs, replace some and developed some new things. I would say normal > work in the broadest sense ... Otherwise the code base would change for every > release and we have blocks for each of them.
The elimination of all non-Apache-licensed code from the former codebase is hardly "normal work", and the replacement of the functions it performed with other code from other sources won't be either. All this pretence that AOO somehow a "business as usual" continuation of the former project is frankly unhelpful. Just face up to the fact this is a new project in a new venue with new rules, a new license, a new brand, and strong historic links to the former codebase. As Graham keeps hinting, treating this as a strength seems to be both the right marketing policy and a great opportunity to move beyond past hurts. S.
