Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On 20/02/2006, at 1:03 AM, JC Helary wrote:
NeoOffice is OpenOffice.org.
No.
SNIP!
Don't you think that both Mac OS X porting team and Neo team want
to get closer, to cooperate closer?
Which is exactly what is occuring now and I can assure you that
developers on either side could make without people like you who
make a useless fuss on open lists. Your claim that OOo and NeoOffice
are different is just as ridiculous as if somebody claimed that
StarOffice and OOo are different.
*rotflmao*
This is one of the best conversations I have seen in a long time -
purely
for the humour of it all. I hope Pavel continues to interact and see how
many more people we get telling him he is an "idiot" and the
"developers"
do not need people like him involved! *lol*
Regards
Jonathon
Jonathon, would you be so kind as to quote the passage where Chad called
Pavel an "idiot"? Unless a post didn't make it to my box, I sure
couldn't find one. And he never said that Pavel shouldn't be "involved"
with the project, he was just making the point (and a good one I think
it was) that the Pavel's rather heated comments that NeofficeJ and
OpenOffice.org are not the "same thing", while being technically
correct, are also almost perfectly pointless from the perspective of the
average Mac user.
I think Chad has a very defensible position in this argument. Exactly
WHY does the project continue to beat this X11 horse for the Mac port?
That would be almost exactly like having a port of OOo for Windows that
is the Linux version tweaked to run under Cygwin. Or a Linux version
that is really a Windows program tweaked to run under Wine. It makes no
sense to me. Especially since the only point of debate between the Neo
and the OOo for Mac crowd seems to be the licensing. Who cares? The only
reason that OOo is LGPL instead of GPL is so that Sun can use the code
in StarOffice. If Sun has no ambitions to release a Mac port of
StarOffice then I fail to see what's driving the conflict.
As it stands, neither side can keep up with the main development of OOo
Win-Lin. I don't use a Mac, so I don't really have a dog in this fight
but from my perspective it all looks pretty silly.
--
Rod
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