Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?

2007-07-28 Thread graeme
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:27:09 +, Tim Smith wrote: On 2007-07-27, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's still managed by people from Sun, and they contribute most of the code. More to the point: http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html Yup. It's interesting how

Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?

2007-07-28 Thread Hadron
Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-07-27, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's still managed by people from Sun, and they contribute most of the code. More to the point: http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html Yup. It's interesting how many

Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?

2007-07-28 Thread Rick
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:55:08 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote: Tim Smith wrote: On 2007-07-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And besides, open office might've been initially released by sun but it is independent of them. Open.Office.org develop open office. It's still

Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?

2007-07-28 Thread Rick
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:32 +0200, Hadron wrote: Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2007-07-27, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's still managed by people from Sun, and they contribute most of the code. More to the point:

Re: Why distrust M$, but trust Sun?

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, copyrights are assigned to Sun, but OO.o and all submissions use the LGPL. Most of the contributions come from Sun employees. There aren't many outside developers. Some who have tried have complained that it is hard to get