Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice dead and burried?
Hi, On Tue, 17 May 2011 03:49:42 -0700 (PDT), plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Since Oracle discontinued commercial development of the OpenOffice suite, and is handling it back to the open-source community for future development and the open-source community moved to LibreOffice, what future is there for OpenOffice? http://www.betanews.com/article/Oracle-hands-OpenOffice-to-opensource-community-gives-up-commercial-sales/1303142878 This was over a month ago. There hasn't been a new OOo build since Dev300m106 back in April 4th and 3.4 Beta in April 11th... Does this mean that no new code has been released either? I am asking this question because I am still hoping that the IAccessible2 implementation that IBM donated to Oracle last year and that Oracle was integrating and testing, will still get released somehow. IBM cannot say yet whether they would do the same exercise again if the IAccessible2 implementation does not get released (maybe they are also waiting for more announcements from Oracle at the end of this month). I have reasons to hope (I am not sure if I can disclose why) that the IAccessible2 implementation will be made available; LibreOffice could then access it too. The IAccessible2 implementation is a considerable piece of work, without which OpenOffice.org (and LibreOffice) remains poorly accessible to screen reader users on MS Windows. What do they mean by handing it back? Are they giving up on the OpenOffice brand? My contacts at Oracle have not made any statements about that. I am waiting for another press release. Best regards, Christophe Can someone from TDF shed some light? -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 www.docarch.be Twitter: @RabelaisA11y -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice dead and burried?
Hi, And not IAccessible2 is the only useful application which future is uncertain. There are many other tools (migration wizard, document analyzer, share-point connector, ODF modul for MSO) which were not open source licensed but were mainly free to use and helped a lot integrating OO.o into Windows environment and for doc migrating. Do you have any idea about these tools availability? Cheers -- Kürti László From: Christophe Strobbe christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:56:13 PM Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice dead and burried? Hi, On Tue, 17 May 2011 03:49:42 -0700 (PDT), plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Since Oracle discontinued commercial development of the OpenOffice suite, and is handling it back to the open-source community for future development and the open-source community moved to LibreOffice, what future is there for OpenOffice? http://www.betanews.com/article/Oracle-hands-OpenOffice-to-opensource-community-gives-up-commercial-sales/1303142878 This was over a month ago. There hasn't been a new OOo build since Dev300m106 back in April 4th and 3.4 Beta in April 11th... Does this mean that no new code has been released either? I am asking this question because I am still hoping that the IAccessible2 implementation that IBM donated to Oracle last year and that Oracle was integrating and testing, will still get released somehow. IBM cannot say yet whether they would do the same exercise again if the IAccessible2 implementation does not get released (maybe they are also waiting for more announcements from Oracle at the end of this month). I have reasons to hope (I am not sure if I can disclose why) that the IAccessible2 implementation will be made available; LibreOffice could then access it too. The IAccessible2 implementation is a considerable piece of work, without which OpenOffice.org (and LibreOffice) remains poorly accessible to screen reader users on MS Windows. What do they mean by handing it back? Are they giving up on the OpenOffice brand? My contacts at Oracle have not made any statements about that. I am waiting for another press release. Best regards, Christophe Can someone from TDF shed some light? -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 www.docarch.be Twitter: @RabelaisA11y -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice dead and burried?
Hi Plino, plino wrote (17-05-11 12:49) [...] What do they mean by handing it back? Are they giving up on the OpenOffice brand? Can someone from TDF shed some light? Probably it will not surprise you when I say that to me it looks best if activities are combined as much as possible, in some form. Anyway that is how I understand open source. But since all depends from how Oracle will handle the situation, I am as curious as you are on what is going to happen. Cor -- - http://nl.libreoffice.org - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted