No one cares!
> To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:54:28 -0700 > Subject: [users] Re: Still active? > > On 06/07/2011 12:21 AM, Mike Scott wrote: > > On 07/06/2011 04:43, NoOp wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 12:01 PM, Mike Scott wrote: > >>> On 06/06/11 19:24, Tim Deaton wrote: > >> ... > >>>> I've subscribed to [email protected] as well. I think I've gotten > >>>> 15-20 messages from there within the last 12 hours. So apparently much > >>>> of the activity has moved there. > >>> > >>> That's the impression I have. I stayed subscribed for a few days until I > >>> got sick of the top/bottom post bickering that seemed to swamp the list, > >>> said my bit about that and left. > >>> > >> > >> Perhaps because the LO lists are missing something as simple as: > >> <http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html> > >> <quote> > > ... > > But it has - in spite of one offender saying there were none, every mail > > on the list has appended a url of such guidelines, which seemed imo > > reasonably clear. I prefer bottom, but follow general practice: what > > really annoyed me was the deliberate and pointed top-posting onto an > > existing 'bottom-posted' thread by that same offender. Now /that/ makes > > for severe confusion. > > No disagreement from me there. > > > > >> That said; Oracle has granted the OOo software to the Apache Software > >> Foundation so it appears that much, if not all of OOo is currently up in > >> the wind right now. There are hundreds of new posts regarding this on > >> the ASF Incubator list as well as others. A post on the OOo discuss list > >> generated one response: > >> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.general/57072> > >> [Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation] > > > > That's puzzling. I'd have thought discuss@OOo would be abuzz with > > comment; as a mere user, I'm wondering what the future holds. Apache > > couldn't be worse than Oracle, could they??? :-) > > > > Probably better to move this over there. > > If IBM have their way with ASF it could be $0.99 cent download: > <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.general/29614> > <quote from Rob Weir (IBM)> > Of course, this is not necessarily a problem for Apache. Think of it > this way. It would be perfectly possible, and actually quite easy for > someone to host the files with a scalable cloud storage provider, e.g., > Amazon, and charge $0.99 for the download, the cost of an iPhone app. > That is over $30 million/year. Heck, I might just do that myself and > retire! > </quote> > > Full thread: > <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.general/29573> > > Cool! OOo at 130MB or so that is mirrored all over the world (including > many public education, goverment, and non-profit servers flipped to an > unreliable Amazon cloud (wonder why he didn't recommend an IBM cloud > instead) and charge $0.99 cents for the download. > > Note: take that with a huge grain of salt as I seriously doubt that will > happen. However, it does give an insight to what the IBM have in mind... > google just might be your friend in this case. In any event, good luck > to OOo. OOo has been a workhorse & friend to me for many years... I am > sincerely sorry to have witnessed the downhill transitions. > > Regarding the Oracle/ASF issues: In all honesty, I suggest following the > threads (many, many, many) on the ASF Incubator list as well as those on > the LO discuss lists to learn more. There were some threads on the OOo > marketing list for awhile, but those seem to have fizzled out. Best bet > is to follow up comments to the discuss list thread as long as the > discuss list continues to exist. > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > For additional commands send email to [email protected] > with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
