Hi Andy, Am Dienstag, 28. September 2010, 19:01:25 schrieb Andy Brown: > Andreas Mantke wrote: > > Hi Jean, > > > > The goal of the foundation initiative is not to create a fork. It's > > now - after ten > > > years - time to set up an independent foundation that holds the code and > > the trademark / naming of OpenOffice.org. > > Why not. >
because we invite Oracle to be a part of the community, an important. Maybe Oracle must change his view about the open source project OpenOffice.org a bit ;-) > > As I mentioned before Oracle is invited to join the foundation (like > > other contributors). There is enough space for them to jump in. > > I know this is not really the place to discuss this, but you did bring > it up. Why would Oracle turn over the rights it has to OOo and lose > control of it? That would be like asking a CEO to go work on the > assembly line with the rest of the "grunts". > At the very beginning they got Star Office and its source code under condition to set it free under an open source license. And it was the community that creates the naming and the value of the trademark OpenOffice.org. We - the community - were working hard to establish OpenOffice.org in the office market. > Oracle has already "improved" OOo that people are refusing to upgrade to > the newer versions. The ODF icon sets for just one example of their > control of OOo. But you can get a version without this not distinguishable icons. I.e. have a look at LibreOffice ;-) Regards, Andreas -- ## Content Developer OpenOffice.org: lang/DE ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## http://de.openoffice.org ## OpenOffice.org Portable: http://oooportable.org ## OOoPDFConverter: http://ooopdfconverter.sourceforge.net ## Meine Seite: http://www.amantke.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
