Pavel: I don't think anybody is arguing that apache open office is, in fact, open office. Is it really worth splitting hairs over? Just asking.
On 3/13/12, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13 Mar 2012, at 17:45, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:42:01 +0000 >> Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>>> The AOO project team includes a large number of the original >>>> developers, Symphony developers, community developers and new >>>> developers. >>> >>> The original population was much much larger so "large" seems >>> hyperbolic here. How about: >>> >>> * The AOO project team includes a number of the original >>> developers plus developers from IBM Symphony and community >>> developers old and new. >> >> How about "many" or "very many" > > The actual situation I think is close to: "of the hundred or so developers > once employed by Sun on OpenOffice.org, about 15 of them are still > participating in open source development derived from the OpenOffice.org > codebase. Of those about half work on Apache OpenOffice and half on > LibreOffice" (corrections giving actual numbers and ratios welcome BTW). > Thus words like "large" or "many" seem overstatement in connection with > either AOO or LO. > > S. > >
