Hi!
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:46 PM Jörg Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> to my dismay I read, from a PMC member, on users...@openoffice.apache.org
> that they are trying to mix up our free OpenOffice with the former
> proprietary StarWriter. Obviously purely for the sake of show and obviously
> also
Hi!
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:38 PM Jörg Schmidt wrote:
>
> Any claim that a continuous code base down to StarWriter for DOS could
> exist is technically and factually absurd, because there is no technical
> continuation of the DOS code base of Starwriter and also the code base at
> the transiti
I have not tried AOO but LibreOffice runs fine on a ChromeBook once the
Linux subsystem is activated from Settings. The easiest way to install it
is to put the AppImage in the linux folder of the internal drive (I
actually have an Applications sub-folder as I have a bunch of other
AppImages install
Thanks David - looks like a clear risk of confusion with Apache's trademark
that the PMC needs to consider and most likely act on.
Cheers
Simon
On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 07:51 David Robley, wrote:
> Just came across this - https://openoffice.com.au/ Are they encroaching
> on AOO in any way, such as
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:06 AM, jan i wrote:
>
> I thought ODF 1.2 was relative old, but I might be wrong.
>
While it was approved as an OASIS standard in 2011, it only became an
official and approved ISO standard in mid-June. More at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_standardization#
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton
wrote:
>
> Until further notice, the AOO Report to the Board will be developed by the
> Chair privately with the PMC and will not be made or discussed in public
> before its submission and acceptance by the Board. Subsequent to that
> acceptanc
memorials/ian_lynch.html
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
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> >
> > Just IMHO, the C++ side of AOO is either under-control or
> > too-ugly-to care-about, so we would do good focus more on the
> > Java parts, which are also somewhat ugly but still promising.
> [ ... ]
>
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> I've used Java (JRE, JDK and Netbeans) on Windows actively for 5+ years,
> and occasionally for longer than that, and I just don't recall seeing a
> malware trick there. I see them on other sites for other software, but not
> there for Java.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
&
oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html
>>
>>
>> I've used Java (JRE, JDK and Netbeans) on Windows actively for 5+ years,
>> and occasionally for longer than that, and I just don't recall seeing a
>> malware trick there. I se
Those of us who were also part of the former OpenOffice.org project will be
shocked to hear of the sudden and untimely death of John McCreesh, who used
to be the (volunteer) marketing lead for the project. I have written more
in [a public post on Facebook][1] which also includes a newspaper report
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <
dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30
> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develop and F
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> We do need to get control of templates.openoffice.org, either direct
> control or a SourceForge contact to whom we can pass this sort of request.
More than that, the site looks like it has more than just the OP using it
for SEO. Read t
It's not an official solution, but you might want to try RollApp which
allows desktop apps to be run through a browser and is just about usable on
an iPad.
See https://www.rollapp.com/tags/Office
S.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:38 PM, YVES-ALAIN Duranleau
wrote:
> I'm a user of Open Office by Appa
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
>
>
> Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
> level? Detect the incoming link based on the referrer as ones coming
> from the offending website and then redirect that to a custom webpage
> where we explain to the use
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a way we could handle it even earlier, at the Apache server
> >> l
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> I think we should be contacting Quick Office Pro about changing their
> support information if we haven't already.
>
I just spoke with the owner of the Apple developer account for the app. He
tells me it had been used by a subcontractor, tha
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> I just spoke with the owner of the Apple developer account for the app. He
> tells me it had been used by a subcontractor, that it was unrelated to his
> real business (online TV) and that he would immediately remove the ap
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
> We had to reject a interesting submission about community metrics in the
> past since FOSDEM is not the place for it.
>
Conveniently, Biturgia is running an EU edition of its FLOSS Metrics event
adjacent to FOSDEM:
http://flosscommunitym
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 30/01/2015 Rob Weir wrote:
>
>> 1) Companies that use commercially licensed software are exposed to
>> compliance risk that can be mitigated with time and expense.
>> 2) Companies that use copyleft software are also exposed to compliance
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti
> wrote:
> >
> >> The page provides relevant information in a bad way (tone and wording of
> >> the abov
On 3 Feb 2015 03:29, "Louis Suárez-Potts" wrote:
>
> Simon,
>
> This is OT.
What is? I am participating in a discussion of the page referred to
legal-discuss by someone else. My last contribution was a
question/suggestion in response to Andrea. As far as I can remember,
nothing I have posted so f
On 30/01/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as
> the OpenOffice project PMC Chair?
>
[X] Jan Iversen (jani)
S.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:26 AM, jan i wrote:
>
> On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton <
dennis.hamil...@acm.org>
> wrote:
>
> >"The connection to this web site is not fully secure
> >because it contains unencrypted elements (such as
> >images)."
Perhaps the
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> Why not just take it down, and re-publish it when there is a more
> agreeable content on it.
That sounds smart to me, +1.
I note that on legal-discuss Jim [called the page][1] "misrepresentation" -
maybe he has comments on what the
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:01 PM, jan i wrote:
> On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Keith N. McKenna <
> keith.mcke...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > jan i wrote:
> > > On 19 February 2015 at 14:14, Simon Phipps > > wrote:
> > >
> >
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> I just updated the PMC FAQ page on the project website.
>
> Please let us know if there are further changes to the persons listed as
> e-mail moderators, wiki admins, or anything else.
>
I'm pretty sure there are others - I moderate users@ an
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Marcus wrote:
>
> IMHO this is an invaluable source of our history that we shouldn't loose.
I agree with this -- it's history for every derivative of OO.o, not just
AOO.
> Please save it at a location where it cannot be deleted by accident. So,
> the best woul
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
>
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Kay Schenk
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just updated the PMC FAQ page on the project website.
>
> I see this page has now been updated and the names of all the list
> moderators have been removed. Is there s
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:03 AM, jan i wrote:
> On 5 March 2015 at 11:42, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Kay Schenk
> > > wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
> On 06/03/2015 Dave Barton wrote:
>
>> OK! One last attempt to clarify and resolve a trivial issue, that has
>> become clouded in misunderstanding and mistranslated into some kind of
>> "bike-shedding" subject.
>>
>
> ...and misunderstood (
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
wrote:
> I'll ask one more time. What action is expected here on dev@ to impact
> how the PMC uses private@ ?
>
I don't think there is any action that can be taken on dev@ beyond pointing
out to others here that, when one does not have access t
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
> You are suggesting a usage pattern of the private list that is far beyond
> reality.
>
I am not. I am pointing out there is no way for me to know, and that the
strong reactions to Dave's original (modest & reasonable) question as well
as
You will want to refer to http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
before you make the personal choice to send any further messages to this
public, archived mailing list.
S.
(I am just a member of the public who subscribes to the list along with
around 450 other subscribers and public archi
On 5 Apr 2015 02:05, "jan i" wrote:
> I can
> replace the report with a short note stating the I (as chair) have removed
> it, because the community need more
> time to discuss the content.
>
That seems crazy, given the long review window and the absence of criticism
on this list. The report was
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Gavin McDonald
wrote:
>
> I suggested (that is the word suggested; and yes it was me!) that some
> sentences be
> reworded slightly - to say the same thing, but in a more positive light,
> in such a way
> as that it might actually encourage more folks to step forw
It's likely that your best approach will involve using CMIS, which is the
interface standard most CMS offer. While there has been some experimental
work done with CMIS in AOO, it's fully implemented in LibreOffice and there
are reports on the web of interaction with a variety of CMS. Try searching
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Nguyễn Đình Văn
wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have 2 question, please ask me:
> 1. Can [Apache open office] view office on Android?
>
There's no work in progress on this at Apache, but there are two related
serious activities.
* A direct port of AOO to Android has been
her document formats such as
> OpenDocument before doing so.
>
> Apache OpenOffice aims to fix the vulnerability in version 4.1.2.
>
> Credits:
>
> Thanks to an anonymous contributor working with VeriSign iDefense Labs.
>
>
>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>> Given this problem is not fixed in the current download, should the
>> project
>> suspend downloads until it can be addressed?
>>
>
> This looks like a very extreme measur
Dear Naomi,
Following Internet norms, my reply to your message is below.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Naomi wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I googled my name to find that your company has saved my messages to two
> mail archives without my consent. Could you please remove my messages from
> the pu
Hi Rory,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
> Just to note that the OO download statistics haven't been updated in a
> long time.
>
Which ones are you referring to? The ones at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline
or something else?
Tha
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:25:01 +0100
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> > Hi Rory,
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Rory O'Farrell
> wrote:
> >
> > > Just to note that the OO downlo
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Marcus wrote:
> Am 06/26/2015 06:27 PM, schrieb Simon Phipps:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:25:01 +0100
>>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>>
>>> H
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Marcus wrote:
> Am 06/26/2015 08:33 PM, schrieb Simon Phipps:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Marcus wrote:
>>
>> Am 06/26/2015 06:27 PM, schrieb Simon Phipps:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Rory O&#
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Andrea Pescetti
wrote:
>
> Note: as discussed several times on this list, replacing this with a link
> to the SourceForge statistics is wrong, since the scripts do the right
> thing in terms of accounting for all downloads and reducing duplicates
> (SourceForge st
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, jan i wrote:
> Hi.
>
> It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+July
>
> comments and changes are welcome.
>
Should the fact CVE-2015-1774 is still unresolved in the released
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM, jan i wrote:
> On 30 June 2015 at 13:54, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, jan i wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at
>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> THE TL;DR:
>
> I agree. The extensive lag to availability of 4.1.2 is far more pertinent
> at the level of the Board Report. The existence of CVE-2015-1774 does not
> change that and should not overshadow it.
>
> I think featuring CVE
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 7:40 PM Marcus wrote:
> Am 28.09.19 um 18:19 schrieb Bidouille:
> > Last build 4.1.7 is it safe with this vulnerability?
> > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10583
>
> we don't talk about such kind of issues in the public. Please use the
> offical se
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 21:48 Patricia Shanahan, wrote:
> One of the resolutions passed at the last board meeting was:
>
> "Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair (Jim Jagielski, VP)"
>
> Jim,
>
> I don't know whether congratulation or commiseration is more
> appropriate, so you get whichever yo
Hi Peter - Thanks for the update and also for your service as PMC Chair all
this time! You definitely deserve a break!
(FWIW, I asked not as a criticism but because previous chair rotations were
discussed here (as far as I remember!) and I wondered why this one was done
privately.)
Cheers,
Simon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:55 AM M. A. Hook wrote:
>
> as M$ is taking over
> LibreOffice and already has their program dependent upon some of
> Windows' parts.
>
This is not a true statement and I'd encourage you not to repeat it.
S.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 5:32 PM Jörg Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > From: bmcs [mailto:b...@apache.org]
> > Authors to ODF Authors. The idea being that it would be one of the few
> > shared areas where AOO and LO could work cooperatively
> > together
>
> I don't believe that at that time, after all
Hi! As Peter said, it seems unlikely this branch of OpenOffice.org will be
enhanced with the ability to write .DOCX format. However, another branch
has added this capability and offers all the other convenient options you
mention as well. You can get it from our "sister" community at
https://libre
Hi Joost!
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:49 AM Joost Andrae wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> it's an honor to me to see a sign of life of you here. Welcome !
>
I've been a relatively active member here from the beginning!
Instead of user picking here to get users leave from AOO to LO a
> developer could cre
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:26 PM Joost Andrae wrote:
> regarding the documentliberation stuff:
> I know some of those filters for a longer time. AFAIK these where
> implementations from one of the Novell guys (Fridrich Strba as far as I
> remember; see http://fridrich.blogspot.com/ )
>
Yes, DLP
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 1:13 PM Peter Kovacs wrote:
>
> On 28.12.20 13:17, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > Playing devil's advocate here: does it make sense to actually post a blog
> > article about this and then, maybe a week later, have the article
> > moot with the actual release?
>
> Yes I think it
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:38 AM Peter Kovacs wrote:
>
> So what do you think? Should we promote the alternate link with this
> release more publicly maybe on Forums and go for a transition to a
> different download policy?
>
Nice work, Peter. It's clearly preferable to have downloads under Apach
Hi Dave, all.
On 12 Jan 2017 22:50, "Dave Fisher" wrote:
Please correct the specific non Apache licenses if I get them wrong. As far
as I know the sequence of events is:
OpenOffice.org was originally dual licensed under LGPLv2 and SISSL (OSI
approved but now retired). With v3 we changed the li
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
>
> > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com]
>
> > * GoOo: The fork that wasn't.
>
> Oh, that was a fork! A fork against OpenOffice.
>
In fact Go-OO was started by Ximian in 2003, long before Novell bought
them, as a convenient build syste
Hi all,
There have been a large number of reports on the Users mailing list of
people getting Access Denied messages when they attempt to access any of
the templates at http://templates.openoffice.org/ or
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/. This situation has been
previously reported here s
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Marcus wrote:
>
> However, it doesn't matter. There is no reason to provide download pages
> to offer outdated versions - based on w.oo.o. Of course we cannot influence
> what others are offering on their webpages.
>
I disagree. I and users I support have often
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Marcus wrote:
> Or choose the item "Older releases" if you need a way older version. Then
> you can get it - by clicking on the Archive link - from our archive.
>
Except you just deleted the page that the dropdown points to for v3.4.1 -
it just gave me a 404 er
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Hagar Delest
wrote:
> Le 10/05/2017 à 23:21, Marcus a écrit :
>
> I've deleted the webpage that is mentioned in the result page the user has
>> posted in the screenshot. As soon as Google is re-indexing our website I
>> expect that this special webpage is recogniz
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Marcus wrote:
>
>
> the 404 is now gone.
But so is the usable table of downloads, which is completely lost. I
believe that is an unwelcome step backwards.
S.
Jörg
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
>
> Today the TDF is not independent, but depends on several companies,
> instead of one. These companies may also be very community-friendly, but
> again there is dependency and this dependency is actively exploited.
>
Please stop, this
Dear AOO developers,
The board of directors of The Document Foundation have asked me to extend
their invitation to join the LibreOffice developers for an informal dinner
on the Saturday evening at FOSDEM (February 3rd, 8pm) in Brussels. If you
would like to attend, please add your name and contact
Just a reminder that everyone on this list is invited for dinner at FOSDEM
as below. Cheers!
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> Dear AOO developers,
>
> The board of directors of The Document Foundation have asked me to extend
> their invitation to join the
sure would be nice.
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2018/FOSDEM#Social_Dinner <
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2018/FOSDEM#Social_Dinner>
>
> Gav…
>
>
> > On 23 Jan 2018, at 4:07 am, Simon Phipps wrote:
> >
> > Just a reminder that everyone on thi
Was the licensing status of the CWSes in this repository every resolved?
S.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> > Was the licensing status of the CWSes in this repository every resolved?
> >
>
> The authorship is varied.
Independent of the developers involved and the individ
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Simon Phipps
> wrote:
> >> > Was the licensing statu
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>> For the legacy Mercurial repository Andrea mentioned to be useful to
>> future
>> developers I would expect the copyright status of the repo to thus need
>> clarifying, and I do
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