Oracle laying off the paid developers wouldn't be good for those people. It's quite possible that we could make a push to get them hired elsewhere.
I'm due to send in an article, and they allow me a hell of a lot of freedom on what I write about - can you give me a list of companies which would be likely to hire OO programmers who have offices close to Oracle's office? Does IBM for example have an office near there? If I have a list, I can include it in the article :) You know, a suggestion of places where they can look for work. They probably already know where to look, but every little bit helps some times, especially in a down economy. Wayne On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Simos Xenitellis < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Wayne Borean <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Merge Open Office and Libre Office and you kill the competitive pressures > > that would drive both projects to greater and greater heights. Keep them > > apart, and you'll end up with projects that will quickly make Apple's > IWork > > and Microsoft's Office obsolete. > > > > Anyone arguing for a merger is your greatest enemy, or a damned fool. > > Competition drives innovation. If you merge with Open Office you'll be > > handling Microsoft an easy victory. > > The view is that OpenOffice is currently manned by Oracle employees, which > might also be out of work soon. And any community members have moved > already > to the Document Foundation and LibreOffice. > > We are just chatting here in this thread with the limited information > that is publicly > available. > What we should agree on is that we want what's best for LibreOffice. > > Simos > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
