Open letter to TDF

2023-12-12 Thread Yury Tarasievich
IMO, not much hope in such letters, and not much potential good from people 'possibly to be lured' from there. The LO folks have already played the MS kind of game, when jumping to the 1.3 file format ahead of everybody. And our icon sets and menus structure do need daily reorganising,

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi All, Am 11.12.23 um 13:14 schrieb Pedro Lino: +1 More important than which Office people prefer, it would be really good if the ODF file format is more widely adopted instead of the increasingly proprietary MS Office XML. In that sense, implementation of ODF 1.3 in OpenOffice would be a

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread Pedro Lino
+1 More important than which Office people prefer, it would be really good if the ODF file format is more widely adopted instead of the increasingly proprietary MS Office XML. In that sense, implementation of ODF 1.3 in OpenOffice would be a real progress! Best, Pedro > On 12/11/2023 11:02 AM

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
Maybe new leadership at TDF will encourage cooperation between LO and AOO instead of still harboring ill-will between the 2 efforts. > On Dec 11, 2023, at 2:28 AM, Bidouille wrote: > > > For some months now, the libreoffice community has been in turmoil. > A new committee is set to oust the

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread DaveB
+1 In fact it might be counter productive for Apache OpenOffice to be seen as interfering in the democratic process of another project. Leave LibreOffice to resolve whatever problems they may or may not have and concentrate on attracting new developers and contributors to Apache OpenOffice.

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I don't think an open letter is a good idea. Maybe we would get public attention. But IMO it is better to get it for our product. I don't think, we'll get more developers in that way. All developers of LibreOffice know very well, were and how hey can find and contact us. Kind

Open letter to TDF

2023-12-10 Thread Bidouille
For some months now, the libreoffice community has been in turmoil. A new committee is set to oust the existing members[1]. Perhaps it would be a good idea to write an open letter urging everyone to join OpenOffice. :-) [1] https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Kx4ttBtdJET9tPF