Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice no longer in Apple store ?

2023-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Sophie ! Le 13/01/2023 à 11:58, sophi a écrit : You don't see it currently because their is a special request for France that we have to comply with first (ANSSI certificate). Once this done, you'll be able to see it :) Christian provided a direct link, but we don't know if it will

Re: [board-discuss] Report about numbers from Apple App Store

2022-11-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Andreas, Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would the board have these figures, unless the private company distributing the product agreed to provide them, or was under some contractual obligation to do so? Just trying to understand exactly what it is you're trying to say, or prove, as

Re: [board-discuss] Re: "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" & others on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
vant licence and source code. > >We have already issued take down notices in the past so we will keep >the >situation monitored and act accordingly. > >Please feel free to forward to me links to other examples so that we >can >complete our list of action items. > >Ciao &

[board-discuss] Re: "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" & others on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
hases GO Office 2021 (Xiaoqin Chen / HNBSoft Team) - 9,99 € DOC Mate:for MS Office (Cynoble Technology Limited) Alex Le 08/09/2022 à 10:15, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi everyone, I just wanted to draw the Board's attention to the existence of the products "Documents Pro

[board-discuss] Documents Pro - Write & Edit on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi everyone, I just wanted to draw the Board's attention to the existence of the products "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" and "Office PDF Suite - for Word, Spreadsheet, Slides & Adobe PDF Docs Editor" These products are being sold respectively for 14,99 € and 39,99 € on the AppStore, which

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] TDF to change statutes following a Federal Court of Justice decision

2022-07-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Thorsten  Alex Le mer. 13 juil. 2022 à 23:41, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : > Hi Alex, > > Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > Did I misread, or isn't the impugned clause (“Der Vorstand ist in seiner > > Vertretungsmacht durch den Zweck der Stiftung beschrän

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] TDF to change statutes following a Federal Court of Justice decision

2022-07-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Florian, Interesting decision by the BGH. Did I misread, or isn't the impugned clause (“Der Vorstand ist in seiner Vertretungsmacht durch den Zweck der Stiftung beschränkt.”) still present in the amended version ? If so, how is that now different to the previous situation (other than

Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree

2022-07-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
My ha'penneth below. Surely, the point of TDF is/was to foster community driven contributions by all ? If a languishing codebase was already there, and people are now prepared to update it and have a go at making something of it, shouldn't TDF be seen to be supporting such an initiative ?

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
It is neither a question of overblowing or "paranoia", (thanks for the gratuitous comment by the way, in tdf#147130), but I raised the issue as to where bugs for Collabora should be reported when it was first released via the AppStore and was told, multiple times, and no less by Michael

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
to retain volunteers like myself, quite the contrary. In fact, had I been of a less phlegmatic disposition, I would have told you all where to go, in no uncertain terms. Alex Le 14/06/2022 à 21:58, sophi a écrit : Hi Alex, Le 14/06/2022 à 09:52, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hello to all

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Jan, For example : tdf#147337 The others (there were at least 2 other instances, for example tdf#147130), all seem to have had similar comments deleted in the interim. Alex Le 14/06/2022 à 19:42, Jan Holesovsky a écrit : Hi Alex, Alexander Thurgood píše v Út 14. 06. 2022 v 09:52

[board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hello to all, Might I suggest that a discussion be had, either by the Board, or the ESC, and a decision be made of public record, as to where bugs relating to Collabora Productivity are to be reported ? I have reported a number of bugs against Collabora Productivity in the LibreOffice

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, See my comments inline under Julien's. Le 25/03/2022 à 09:18, Julien Nabet a écrit : Firebird is not the only pb, charts aren't displayed anymore in reports and the whole reports part is dependent on old Java external components. Yes, the issue of charts in reports no longer being

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, I'd just like to comment on the exchange below, from my perspective: Le 10/02/2022 à 15:27, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Then there is a number of donors who ask to stop the recurring donation. Some of them provide a reason, which in some cases is that he wanted to donate once and not

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Ilmari ! I seem to have missed that ! Will need to try it out again, and apologies for my erroneous statement in that case. Alex Le 13/01/2022 à 21:08, Ilmari Lauhakangas a écrit : On 13.1.2022 21.56, Michael Meeks wrote: On 13/01/2022 12:35, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Endian-ness

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Michael, Thanks for jumping in on this thread, and I appreciate you having taken the time to address my points. Comments inline : Le 12/01/2022 à 21:45, Michael Meeks a écrit : Unfortunately - this tends to dis-aggregate the funding again - so we end up either with too little money

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Paolo, Answers/comments/response inline : Le 12/01/2022 à 14:56, Paolo Vecchi a écrit : *1) Support offering from commercial entities* There isn't much we can do in this area as each company chooses its own business model. Offering a SLA to fix a bug could mean spending a day in

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
an 12, 2022 at 10:09 AM Alexander Thurgood wrote: It seems increasingly obvious that the provider of these commercial versions is not interested in maintaining database functionality and the supporting Java functionality that accompanies the Base module. The reasons for t

[board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi *, Sophie suggested that I might want to raise what I perceive as an issue here on this list, that is connected, but not identical, to the issue relating to the Attic question, and the questions around the sidelining of features/functionality in commercially developed and distributed

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 10:18, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, Alex, how does that sound from a legal point of view? Is it strong enough? Usage is explained in our trademark policy. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 10:18, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Second thoughts, subject to international copyright laws. Uses are explained our trademark policy. better still : Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 15:25, Simon Phipps a écrit : Hi Simon, better still : Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy. I agree that's more precise English. I am a little concerned it's uncommon usage that those with English as a second language might consider difficult, and thus I prefer

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/07/11 16:53, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, hmmm... do I get it right that not mentioning any trademark protection is better than mentioning that a mark is protected, but not naming the registrant? The easiest way around such a situation in the present state of...flux,

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-07-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/07/11 10:21, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, legally, the German association Freies Office Deutschland e.V. is the current trademark holder, as TDF doesn't exist as legal entity yet. Ideally then, reference should be made to the FOD Verein and not to TDF. Not mentioning the

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-07-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/07/11 18:39, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian I received a trademark use request from an extension vendor. For confidentiality reasons (the product has not yet been launched), I'll remove the name, but the request is as follows: Back of the product box: LibreOffice is a

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/07/11 23:32, Simon Phipps a écrit : As someone who also has worked in this field for the best part of a decade, and given the advice Alex has already provided appears extreme, I would suggest also seeking counsel from another specialist if TDF wishes to pursue this path, perhaps from

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/07/11 23:26, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi all, Someone suggested I sling in some caselaw or other references on whether copyright protection is available for UIs : US Just one caselaw review : http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/crind.htm Europe In European Union Court of Justice

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/07/11 11:48, Tom Davies a écrit : Everyone : To me, the point has more to do with SC communication. Once again, a topic has raised its head that I considered dealt with, and now it is back on the table. Although not a member of the SC, the question of the legality of screenshot usage and

[steering-discuss] Re: LibreOffice TSC call, Thur May 12th - 15:00 UTC...

2011-05-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/05/11 11:25, Petr Mladek a écrit : Bug 36991 - crash when duplicating draw page with linked wmf pictures I think a crash in a basic function that might affect many users is not acceptable. I agree that it is annoying and we should fix it ASAP. It seems to behave very randomly.

[steering-discuss] Re: Approval of our Trademark Policy

2011-03-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/03/11 01:00, drew a écrit : Hi Drew, Well which is it - is the community logo w/registered trademark, mark or not? - it is both ways on the wiki page above - PNG w/out any mark, SVG with 'registered trademark, while on the trademark policy page it seems that maybe it is just a tm that

[steering-discuss] Re: Trademark Policy of the Document Foundation

2011-01-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/01/11 13:47, Michael Meeks a écrit : Hi Michael, I suppose they need permission :-) With the caveat of the fair use exception, which does not require permission. The notion of fair use varies from country to country. In some countries, you are even allowed to use registered