Hi,
Do we the user base have any say in the product anymore,
Any say that the users had, whilst OOo was run by Sun, was purely
illusionary.
I need to disagree. I am one of the developers of OpenOffice.org working
for Oracle, formerly Sun, formerly Stardivision.
I listen to the arguments users write in issues or post on mailinglists.
I look at the votes of the issues. This has influenced what I am doing
in the past and will influence what I am doing in the future. So
convincing and voting is the method to influence where the program goes.
Write good bug reports, write good feature request. Give additional
arguments to existing bugs or feature requests and vote!
Who is now in charge of the code our volunteers contribute?
If it goes into the OOo cvs system, Oracle. If it goes into the
LibreOffice, Go-OO, OxygenOffice, etc cvs system, the community.
Again I need to correct jonathon. Code committed to OpenOffice.org is
open to be taken and used from all others. go-oo did that in the past
and LibreOffice is doing that again. They take code from OpenOffice.org.
In contrary go-oo and LibreOffice have choosen a license politics that
make it impossible to take their code and integrate it into
OpenOffice.org. So if you contribute code to OpenOffice.org it will went
into most flavors or forks. If you choose to contribute to LibreOffice
in contrary the code will only be there.
Kind regards,
Ingrid
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