With all the fork discussion going on, I figured I'd just as well as this one
too.
Since the announcement, I've heard a number of people (via comments on Slashdot
and OSNews at the very least) suggest that LibreOffice is a fork of Go-OOo
instead of OOo (realizing that Go-OOo is derived from
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From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org
Le Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:05:50 +0200,
Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com a écrit :
In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:34:33, Charles-H. Schulz
charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org ha
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From: Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com
Il 20/10/2010 5.46, M. Fioretti ha scritto:
The real question was why didn't the TDF founders who have/had
official roles in OOo publicly resign from those roles on Sept 28th,
one second BEFORE announcing the
.
From: Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote:
Oracle just spent several billion dollars buying Sun - at least part of
which would have been for OOo and
all its assets.
Is it buying the software, or the community
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From: Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
Il 20/10/2010 16.36, Mike Dupont ha scritto:
1. what will it cost if you have to rewrite the authors code and all
derived works.
2. what if you just remove
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From: Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 20:30 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:16:37 -0400,
Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com a écrit :
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
Il 20/10/2010
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From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org
Le Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:12:59 -0700 (PDT),
BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com a écrit :
From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org
4) the notion that we cannot change license because we
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From: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 5:37:19 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation
BRM wrote:
The Linux Kernel guys don't require it; KDE E.v
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From: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 2:22:03 AM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation
Hi all,
BRM wrote (29-10-10 00:41)
From: Thorsten Behrenst
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From: todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Fri, October 29, 2010 2:22:03 AM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright
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From: Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com
On 2010-10-31 6:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Now, without copyright assignment/agreement (granted by the LibreOffice
developers to the Document Foundation), the Document Foundation will be
in the awkward
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From: Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:36 +0100, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
LibreOffice already has the selectable help/about version text so it
can be cut/pasted.
Yeeey!!
:-)
Hardly. Now you've got two things that
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From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 4:12:50 AM
Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: On the Future of TDF
Le 2010-11-16 03:29, timofonic timofonic a écrit :
That's interesting to know about OASIS, thanks for
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From: AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com
On 14/11/10 11:25, Mirek M. wrote:
In addition, each single module of LibreOffice will be undergoing an
extensive rewrite, with Calc being the first one to be redeveloped around a
brand new engine - code named Ixion
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From: Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de
snip
http://docs.officeshots.org/ may be a potential starting point -
especially when it comes to document conversion / rendering
fidelity.
I don't know if and how easy this would be in drupal. So far I have
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From: Robert Boehm boehm.robe...@gmail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Sun, November 28, 2010 1:14:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Survey: Usage of LibreOffice components
On 11/28/2010 12:09 PM, Sebastian G. bastik wrote:
I'd like to know which
I never joined the OOo mailing lists so it never got proposed there, and if
there's a better TDF mailing list to post this to then please let me know so I
may do so. I did, however, try to submit something to the ODF folks; but that
never got any where.
I've worked on proposals and similar
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From: Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net
snip
Have you tried working with master documents? The User Guide is available
on
the OOo wiki at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide
on the right hand side is a
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From: Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com
On 2010-11-30 2:16 PM, Kevin Vermeer wrote:
Perhaps the installer could be replaced by a small configuration
application, which would allow the user to select the components they wish
to install, and would then
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From: Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com
On 2010-11-30 5:29 PM, BRM wrote:
LibO - like OOo - does not really have separate components. Even if you
could download just one component, the resulting size would only be a
few MBs smaller than it is now
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From: Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com
I remember that optical disks started to replace floppies in about 1995
because Win-95 came either way. Win-98 was CD only. I will admit that DVD
burners didn't become affordable until about 2005, but most of
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From: Mark Preston m...@mpreston.demon.co.uk
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Fri, December 3, 2010 12:18:16 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.
I see several issues in the discussion about installers - and I only
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From: Carl Symons carlsym...@gmail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 3:47:30 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
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From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com
Even MS Office users (prior to 2007) have had trouble with this docx
fraud.
Perhaps LibO and all other Open Source projects - and perhaps anyone
supporting
ODF for that matter - should treat OOXML like Microsoft
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From: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com
snip
We need to force MS to support ODF - as others have pointed out ODF is
quickly
becoming the world standard at least at the government level - which means
in a
few years most organizations that support governments will
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From: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com
On 1/3/2011 11:19 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Barbara,
Le Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:55:21 -0600,
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com a écrit :
On 1/3/2011 3:06 AM, Davide Dozza wrote:
Il 02/01/2011 20:41, Charles-H. Schulz ha
doing this.
On 1/5/11 6:13 PM, BRM wrote:
I was about to suggest something along a similar line, and that fits
perfectly
well within it...
Instead of bundling an email client with LibreOffice, I suggest as part of
the
installer the option be provided to download and install one
Haven't tried it, but at least at one point StarOffice/OpenOffice required the
JRE to provide the help system. Ran into that a couple of times in the past.
Don't know if that is still the issue with LO now or not.
Ben
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From: RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com
To:
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From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 10:59:59 AM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] purpose of this list?
Le Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:47:58 +0100,
Florian Effenberger
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From: Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com
On 8 February 2011 11:34, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org
wrote:
Hi,
thanks for your contributions, great to see things moving! :-)
Well, I think opening an US bank account is problematic at least
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From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com
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On 02/08/2011 04:36 PM, BRM wrote:
Why resort to deception and Microsoft-esque tactics to promote LO?
FWIW, it isn't uncommon for 501(c)3 organizations to have a for-profit
organization
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From: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com
Le 17/05/11 12:49, plino a écrit :
What do they mean by handing it back? Are they giving up on the
OpenOffice
brand?
Can someone from TDF shed some light?
Nobody seems to know, or if they do, they are
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From: Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com
On 5/17/11 4:17 PM, BRM wrote:
Personally I hope Oracle doesn't drop the ball on it and that OpenOffice
proper
can become a true community lead project as I haven't yet seen anything
from
the
leadership of TDF
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From: Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org
To: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com
Cc: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 5:34:38 AM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?
BRM wrote:
In some cases, the community decision
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From: Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com
On the other hand, ASF members should start building their opinions about
TDF
from other sources than the rumors spread by individuals who, for personal
reasons, do not like TDF (you can find any flavour of them
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From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 5:56:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache
OpenOffice
On 9 Jun 2011, at 19:47, Simon Brouwer wrote:
Anyway, I think it is
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From: Uwe Altmann o...@altsys.de
Am 10.06.11 15:55, schrieb BRM:
You know, usually when an organization (such as TDF) is legally owned by
another organization …
I know it is difficult to understand if you're not in (german) legal
affairs: TDF once fonded
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From: Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com
On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:17 PM, David Nelson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 22:18, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote:
I was making the observation that TDF's website materials make little
mention
of the fact that FroDeV
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From: Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org
Greg Stein wrote on 2011-06-14 17.09:
It is simply that newbie's have NO UNDERSTANDING of this. Florian had
to explain all the details because they are not on the website.
I guess the truth lies in
structure
at all.
On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi,
BRM wrote on 2011-06-15 15.47:
should be updated to reflect the legal reality that while TDF is being
setup it
is an sub-entity of FroDeV; listing out who specifically owns the
trademarks,
etc
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From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
Greg Stein wrote:
how can you say that Apache
removes rights from people's contributions? As a developer, you
still own your code. You can do whatever you like with it. Apache
doesn't take anything from You.
Easy. Even
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From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
BRM wrote:
Even the GPL does not provide that right. If a company wanted it could
take a
GPL product, make whatever changes it wanted, and distribute it internally
to
itself without ever contributing back
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From: todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Thu, June 16, 2011 3:13:15 PM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache
OpenOffice
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote:
Ben
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From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Thu, June 16, 2011 6:31:25 PM
Subject: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re:
[Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011
DISCLAIMER: IANAL. Consult one for real legal advice if you need it.
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From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
BRM wrote:
Directly from the FSF, authors of the GPL. You must have a copy of the
written
offer in order to be entitled to receipt of the source
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From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 10:12:01 AM
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re:
[Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice)
@BRM sorry to burst your fantasy
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From: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
The overlap between TDF ASF's goals for an office product
(modulo
enabling 'mixed-source')
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From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:54 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote:
DISCLAIMER: IANAL. Consult one for real legal advice if you need it.
...
Party F may ask Group C for the code, showing the written notice he
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From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com
On 18 Jun 2011, at 11:35, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-15 17.28:
Maybe it's a language issue, but no, the imprint does nothing
at all to make it clear. It simply says, in effect, FroDev wrote
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From: Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 10:19:41 AM
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice +US Gov't ECCN Export Control
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Uwe Altmann o...@altsys.de
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