Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview.  At least I got a good closing quote, even if it was a little tweaked in the story. Perhaps in

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Simon Phipps
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_**alive_well/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview. At least I got a good

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Donald Harbison
Shane, Well done. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_**alive_well/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview.

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 10/15/2011 3:36 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Shane Curcurua...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview. At least I got a good closing quote, even

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
Great job… I even liked that fact that even they understood that the warm-wishes to TDF were sincere. I also appreciate that they used the term pointedly to enforce that. On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: And I'm on El Reg!

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_**alive_well/

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Kay Schenk
Well I'd have to write a book to respond to SO many interesting ideas, so I guess I'll remain mum. The truth is out there...well several interpretations of it anyway. The press release that came out today was very good by the way. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Shane Curcuru

RE: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Well, the demonstration of initial confusion in the Team OpenOffice.org approach is certainly clear. The teamopenoffice press release is assumed to be from OpenOffice.org in the Slashdot lede. (To help with that, apparently Team OO.o holds an OO.o trademark or claimed to at one point.) I've

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I've read through the German materials at the site and, while Google Translator does stumble, the gist of it is pretty clear.  This has all the appearance of an over-the-top plea to fund 4 guys to save

RE: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:04 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: We're on slashdot! On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I've read through the German materials at the site and, while Google

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Oct 14, 2011 7:04 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Is it even four guys? They list five title-related email addresses and give the same phone number five times. If I didn't know Team OO existed before now I'd wonder if someone had just built a site from random images. Many of

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Oct 14, 2011 7:04 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: Is it even four guys?  They list five title-related email addresses and give the same phone number five times.  If I didn't know Team OO existed before now

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Danese Cooper
On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I've read through the German materials at the site and, while Google Translator does stumble, the gist of it is pretty clear. This has

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Oct 14, 2011 7:26 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: It probably isn't a coincidence that LibreOffice Con is this weekend and we're the real deal messaging is coming from LO and TOOo is concerned about dilution of the OOo brand... We've not seen any messaging like that here in

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Shane Curcuru
And I'm on El Reg! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ Hope I did OK in the interview. At least I got a good closing quote, even if it was a little tweaked in the story. - Shane On 10/14/2011 11:45 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: Oh, my what an...