Hi Drew, Drew Jensen schreef: > >> Just to make it clear: I am an independent volunteer community member >> without any affiliation with Oracle that might color my perspective. >> However, until now I am not convinced that the position of Sun/Oracle >> in the project has been, or was going to be, a larger obstacle to the >> continued success of OpenOffice.org (under any name) than this big >> change may turn out to be. I would be very sorry to see the efforts >> (including mine) of ten years OOo going down the drain. >> > > And just to be clear - why is it that you equate what is happening with > "going down the drain", is it only viable, your contribution if their is > a corporate affiliation?
I am not equating that, but I am concerned that a breakup of the cooperation that exists right now in OpenOffice.org between the Hamburg team of Oracle (which drives a substantial part of its development) and the community at large will seriously slow down the development and/or hurt (potential) users' confidence. I have yet to see whether TDF, with all its good intentions, will be able to set up the LibreOffice project with sufficient developer force and expertise to really compensate. -- best regards, Simon Brouwer -*- nl.openoffice.org -*- http://www.opentaal.org -*- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
