On 3/12/12 5:19 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:08, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 3/12/12 4:34 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
Out of interest, where have you seen that statement from an authoritative
source? The former community seems spread between the AOO project and
LibreOffice to me, and all the comments I have seen (and made) occupy that
reality.
you can hear such statements all over ...
Maybe not authoritative but at it happened at the official LibreOffice booth.
A friend of mine visited the LibreOffice booth at the Cebit and asked why she
should use LibreOffice. She was told that LibreOffice is the successor of
OpenOffice and that OpenOffice doesn't longer exist. She told the guy, well I
have heard about Apache OpenOffice and that IBM has joined this project as
well. It seemed that she was using the words. The guy who ever it was, was not
amused reacted very angry and told her Apache is trying something since 1 year
and are not able to deliver something and if she want something from IBM the
booth is there ... After this somewhat strange reaction the guy stopped talking
to her.
That doesn't sound good - any idea who was involved (you can e-mail me
privately if you prefer)?
no sorry I can't say more, it's not known
I was at least surprised by this reaction and didn't understand it. Even if we
are 2 projects we have or at least should have the same goal and that is to
increase the eco system around ODF.
Absolutely agree. It's clear that both projects are staffed by experienced people and
have an equal claim to be carrying on the work of the former OpenOffice.org project, and
neither has the exclusive claim to be the "continuation".
whereas I agree to the first part I disagree to the second part. But
please don't let us start a new discussion on this topic. We have enough
to do to keep OpenOffice running and to deliver our first release ;-)
Juergen
