Hi :) The divergence has resulted in at least a doubling of the numbers of people working on the project(s). The projects do have a lot of overlap and share a lot. People that were colleagues working alongside each other may find themselves split into different projects but still chatting and helping each other.
Taking just LibreOffice alone, it has famously already had a vast amount of devs join in. The "Easy hacks" initiative has made it far easier to get devs that are familiar with other projects familiarised with programming for LibreOffice. It's helped draw in students and other people that have never really done any programming before or left programming years ago and "Google's Summer of Code" has helped draw people into programming for LO too. Under Sun the infrastructure had all grown quite tangled so it was good to get a fresh start under TDF maximising the usefulness of modern technology that simply wasn't around when Sun's infrastructure was originally planned. The Apache Foundation is quite large and IBM can support their developments but would fidn it difficult to support a truly and fully OpenSource project such as LibreOffice. Apparently Apache Licensing allows a mix of some fairly proprietary chunks of code alongside OpenSource ones. If OOo had just carried on under Sun then it wouldn't have had the resources of either Apache nor TDF let alone both!! Plus about half the community would have been unhappy about not being fully OpenSource and therefore never gaining the backing of the "Free Software Foundation" which has led to a greater range of distros being comfortable using LO. The other half might have wanted to pull us more in the direction of corporate secrecy such as IBM seem to want. This way both sides are happier and growing faster. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 18/4/12, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 18 April, 2012, 10:17 Le 17/04/12 11:28, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, While I might agree with your statements with regard to the integrated use of HSQLDB, I would differ with regard to hooking up Base to various server backends, which in my experience do work rather well on the whole, albeit with tweaking, and are multi-OS compatible. > LONG story short........ I have now moved my (re-built) Database on to > Kexi - and what a difference!!!! It's like getting out of an old > broken-down VW (or other make) of car and getting into a brand new > Jaguar and driving down the highway at 100mph!! And I know what that > feels like as I did just that last year in the UK!! Yes there is a lot > to learn and work out but the overall effect is like Chalk and Cheese!! > > For anyone interested I can recommend this DB - some of the more fancy > options are only due out in future releases but for a basic DB job it > "just works"!! > Is it multi-OS ? Can you create a db/form/query in Kexi and give it to a Windows, Mac or Solaris user and then have that work ? If not, then it is no better than Access, or Lotus Approach. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
