[tdf-discuss] Godot's official statement (was:New name)
Hi Andy, *, Andy Brown schrieb: On Tue Oct 05 2010 14:10:26 GMT-0700 (PDT) Christoph Noack wrote: Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 17:03 -0700 schrieb Andy Brown: On Mon Oct 04 2010 16:29:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Christoph Noack wrote: [..] The article only states Oracle said it was investing substantial resources in OpenOffice.org. “With more than 100 million users, we believe OpenOffice.org is the most advanced, most feature-rich open-source implementation and will strongly encourage the OpenOffice community to continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org,” the enterprise software and hardware giant said in a statement. With no name or reference to where the statement can be see. It has already been cited by Kürti on this list: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/msg00282.html A repeat of the news article. Aha. But what you mean? :-) Just what I said, the message only repeats the same statement. Again no name or reference to where the full statement can be found. Who made the statement? What is their position at Oracle? Anyone can make a statement but how much weight does that statement carry? If you take it a face value then there is no way that Oracle is going to hand over the trademark or anything else to the community that has helped build it. Do they actually think that they did all the work to get that 100 million users? Yet there are some that hold to the idea. No, they think they *bought* all the work. They have good reasons to remain silent. We should accept that, stop thinking about it and go ahead. Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Ansprechpartner / contact person for the PrOOo-Box german language OpenOffice.org and more on CD/DVD http://prooo-box.org -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Godot's official statement
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: If you take it a face value then there is no way that Oracle is going to hand over the trademark or anything else to the community that has helped build it. Do they actually think that they did all the work to get that 100 million users? Yet there are some that hold to the idea. No, they think they *bought* all the work. They have good reasons to remain silent. We should accept that, stop thinking about it and go ahead. Please remind that Oracle is used to play in the corporate marketplace, where the time has a different meaning. They want 15 days to approve a quote in a press release, against two days requested by Microsoft (is just an example). In addition, they are used to own everything they buy. Look at what has happened to PeopleSoft and Siebel, whose brands have disappeared from the market. If you spend a couple of hours reading online interviews to Larry Ellison, you will be enlightened on the subject. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile: +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Email: italo.vign...@gmail.com - Skype: italovignoli -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Godot's official statement
Hi, Am 06.10.2010 01:26, schrieb Andy Brown: On Tue Oct 05 2010 15:16:39 GMT-0700 (PDT) Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Andy Brown schrieb: If you take it a face value then there is no way that Oracle is going to hand over the trademark or anything else to the community that has helped build it. Do they actually think that they did all the work to get that 100 million users? Yet there are some that hold to the idea. No, they think they *bought* all the work. They have good reasons to remain silent. We should accept that, stop thinking about it and go ahead. I am sure that they have very good reasons, thus my questioning the statements that have be credited to Oracle. As I see it if the community does not move on it will fail. This in fighting over a name is not helping matters any. The discussion that is going on in some of the OOo list is not helping. *+1* Erich -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
