Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Kay Schenk
On 08/31/2016 09:26 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > One can always create an independent entity. It hasn't happened. By now, > the odds are clearly that it will not. I suspect that folks who would pursue > that avenue do not see a meaningful opportunity. > > My considered opinion is that

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Patricia; I, for one, appreciate the idea: 80% of the users are Windows people and the project should be focusing on improving the experience on that platform. OTOH, most of the active developers work on UNIX variant (and I suspect FreeBSD is the majority lately). I conceptually

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way of

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Simon Phipps
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

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -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 Further AOO > > On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > One can always create an

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 01.09.2016 um 00:59 schrieb Simon Phipps: > 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:

Re: Merge with LibreOffice?

2016-08-31 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:38 PM, toki wrote: > On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > The question I am left with is this: If a cousin development provides > what you want, why are you not satisfied with that? > > There are functions and capabilities in AOo

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way of

Re: Merge with LibreOffice?

2016-08-31 Thread toki
On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The question I am left with is this: If a cousin development provides what > you want, why are you not satisfied with that? There are functions and capabilities in AOo that are not in LibO or EO. There are functions and capabilities in EO that

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread toki
On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > One can always create an independent entity. It hasn't happened. By now, > the odds are clearly that it will not. The Document Foundation is an independent entity, building upon the OOo 3.x code base. > My considered opinion is that the

RE: [E-devel] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 locks in Enlightenment 0.21.99.21605

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC to AOO dev list] Please remove dev@openoffice.apache.org from these messages. The discussion seems to have little to do with Apache OpenOffice and there appears to be nothing that the project can contribute with respect to this issue. If that is not the case, please open a bugzilla

RE: Merge with LibreOffice?

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Απόστολος Συρόπουλος [mailto:asyropoulos...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2016 12:36 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: ΑΠ: Merge with LibreOffice? > > > >> Greetings, dear AOO community. > >> > >> Please note first that this message is

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
One can always create an independent entity. It hasn't happened. By now, the odds are clearly that it will not. I suspect that folks who would pursue that avenue do not see a meaningful opportunity. My considered opinion is that the greatest barrier is lack of a meaningful