On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:29 AM, RA Brown wrote: > Douglas Hinds wrote: >> >> After I wrote and asked Several Questions, beginning with: >> >> Are OO and LO equivalent? >> >> RA (Andy) Brown responded: >> >>> Yes and no. >> >>>> If not, are there any significant differences? >> >>> It would depend on your idea of "significant". They look different but >>> on the inside they are mostly the same. There are some reports that >>> LibO does not handle files created in OOo but I can not confirm. >> >> Since both follow the same guidelines (Open Code, Multiplatform, M$ File >> Format >> Capability, Community based Mutual Support) and were created by the >> same people, imo it would be a shame if there was no collaboration between >> the two development teams,&/or if inter-operability issues exist. >> >> Other relevant issues include: >> >> Did MOST of the oo team transfer to lo? > > Due to licensing issues very little of the code came from sources out side of > Sun/Oracle, so none of the core dev left OOo. The devs that started LibO > were from the some companies that did the Go-oo fork, Novell and RedHat being > two of those. > >> Are some developers working on both teams? > > Not that I am aware of. Due to the license it was hard to get code back into > the main source. > >> AFAIK, the transfer of human resources occurred due to doubts some >> developers held in relation to Oracle. Have those doubts proved to be >> either grounded or groundless? > > Looking back, maybe they had a good reason. As you may know Oracle donated > all the OOo code, trademarks to the Apache Software Foundation, ASF, to > continue development.
"Transfer of Human Resources" is too corporate a term for Apache OpenOffice.org. An important point about the Apache Software Foundation. It is a community of individual volunteers. Some companies might ask their employees to work on a project, but no one who is involved represents anyone more than themselves and no company owns the results. The ASF does not pay developers to work on projects, it is a volunteer organization. Regards, Dave > >> Diversity and additional options are great, but these things happen >> for a reason. Some of my OS come with oo and others with lo >> installed, and all the computers are multiboot systems. IMO, any >> effort made toward inter-operability would be a good thing - as would >> sharing resources (just as most Linux Distros share a common kernel). > > Linux also shares the Go-oo, Libo, code. It has been announced that the next > major release of all disrtos will come with LibO, which makes sense since > they did not come with plain OOo anyway. LibO is not the only or first fork > of OOo, see [1] for more on that. You will have to scroll down till you see > the chart but it is clear. > >> >>>> If so, please define. >> >>>> Does this list deal with both? >> >>> That is a good question, I do not believe that I have seen any questions >>> here about LibO. >> >> If questions were asked, would answers be given or would the poster be >> directed to a lo list or forum? > > If I reply it will be with the best answer I can give. If that is to direct > to the LibO list, so be it. If I can give an answer I will. > >>>> If not, what's the LO list address? >> >>> If you go to http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ you will fine links to >>> help. >> >>>> Lastly, is there any reason NOT to install OO v. 3.3? >> >>> No there is not a reason to NOT install OOo v3.3 and LibO v3.3.4 as the >>> do not conflict so you can see for yourself which works for you. >> >> Both work. But sometimes new version have issues. I have oo 3.2.1 >> installed and have downloaded 3.3. I thought I'd ask before >> installing it. > > That is true and the reason I said "works for you". We each have things that > we use and expect to work a given way. I have and use both, for helping and > personal use. > >>> This link to the OpenOffice.org forum maybe of interest. >> >>> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=37028&hilit=compare+ooo+libo#p169887 >> >>> Copy and paste the full address into your browser if clicking does not work. >> >> I'll check that later today. >> >>> HTH >>> Andy >> >> Thanks for the orientation, Andy. > > Your welcome and I hope that you will join us at the Apache [2]. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recall&rev=207 > > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ > > Andy > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
