Congratulations Ryan, You have done a great work for this open source API,
Regards Sudhakar Oliver, Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I would like to join your team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I am in working with different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of existing POI in short period. Thanks sudhakar --- Piers Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable > in the development of the Office integration work I did for > Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job! > > Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently > rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch). > > >unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)... > > Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently > reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is. > > Best regards, > Piers > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Leaving POI > > > Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to > bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license > with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is > a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL > or even GPL. > > As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not > contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain > unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to. > > I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you. > > -Andy > > PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps > up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to > the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking. > -- > Andrew C. Oliver > http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp > Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI > > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi > For Java and Excel, Got POI? > > > --- > > > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 05/07/2004 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== "No one can earn a million dollars honestly."- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
