Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Shane Curcuru > 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/> >

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! > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_o

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 Curcuru 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 twea

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 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

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Simon Phipps
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Shane Curcuru 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,

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Shane Curcuru 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 "The ASF ... s

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... extraordinarily

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Oct 14, 2011 7:26 PM, "Danese Cooper" 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 Paris; in fact,

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Danese Cooper
On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > 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-th

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Oct 14, 2011 7:04 PM, "Donald Whytock" 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 ju

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Simon Phipps
On Oct 14, 2011 7:04 PM, "Donald Whytock" 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 us know the

RE: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
- From: Donald Whytock [mailto:dwhyt...@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 wrote: > I've read through the German materials at the site a

Re: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton 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 OpenOffice.org from > death

RE: We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
.org] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 08:46 To: ASF Marketing & Publicity; ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: We're on slashdot! Oh, my what an... extraordinarily colorful and controversial set of quotes to rip out of the middle of different postings they put together: http://develo

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 wrote: > Oh, m

We're on slashdot!

2011-10-14 Thread Shane Curcuru
Oh, my what an... extraordinarily colorful and controversial set of quotes to rip out of the middle of different postings they put together: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/14/1531252/OpenOffice-Is-Dying-And-IBM-Wont-Help And boy, are there some misunderstandings out there. - Shane