On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:26, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote: > On the Sun side do I interepret incorrectly or is ther the 'possibility' > of say Sun, or someone to whom Sun might sell their copyright in the > future, incorporating a bunch of stuff into StarOffice (with no space in > the title, thanks Jeff :) on top of your code, and not release it to > OOo? Is that right?
Yes that is exactly what I am saying. > Is that any sort of concern? a) It is their work and we have the source base to simply re-implement it, if we choose to. b) Do you trust the other party? c) Do you, as a person spending your time, care? If this is not acceptable then there are some really cool projects out there. gnumeric being one of them. > Or do you consider this > risk negligible or completely worth running due to the goodness of the > OOo package as opposed to say abiword? Near zero. I support OOo due to extreme cross platform. OOo will open the door for all FOSS by installing on Windows and simply working. > As a disclaimer I'm > involved in the extreme perifery of Gnumeric which is a thing of beauty > and a joy forever and I love it, but I also love OOo. (I use oowriter > myself, so a big THANKS! BTW.) I use gnumeric because it is fast to open spreadsheets from scratch. By the way I hope in the future to merge some underlying libraries for ALL FOSS word processors/ spreadsheets / etc. It is pointless each of us writing and debugging separate versions of import for legacy Microsoft for instance. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer PS: I believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Clause because I would not have Linux otherwise... Ask Linus. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
