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/
