On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0400 > Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Simon Phipps >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 12 Mar 2012, at 15:38, Rob Weir wrote: >> > >> >> I'll decline your attempt to divert the conversation. >> > >> > It's far from it Rob. It's a polite and serious question. >> > No-one I know doubts the experience of the former >> > OpenOffice.org developers who joined this project, so I am >> > rather surprised to see you asserting otherwise. Hence I'm >> > respectfully asking where your assertion that: >> > >> >> And that was my polite and serious response, Simon. I'm sorry >> if you saw it otherwise. > > There have been a number of (ill-informed) posts to that effect > on the User Forum, which I'm too busy to look up. > > I think Rob's overall point is good, that we need to emphasise the > continuing OpenOffice.org experience and community available on > the Apache project, without disrespect to the LibreOffice/TDF > communities. We should mend fences; if that is not immediately > possible, we shouldn't be erecting other barriers. >
Exactly. Anyone can find a dozen examples of this if they spend 5 minutes in Google. It is not a challenge. My intent is not an expose on the source of this FUD. I'm not accusing anyone or any group. I just want to collect the facts and publish them in some memorable form for reference. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. -Rob > -- > Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
