On 16 April 2011 04:34, Louis Suarez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All, > As others have noted… well, this is interesting news.* And it comes as > news, indeed. It also comes unattached with any actual explication as to > what it means in practice. And there are many questions, and I've asked my > former colleagues some of them. The most obvious being, of course, Will > Oracle contribute code to the development of OpenOffice.org as it has in the > past? Right now, Oracle does virtually all of the coding for OpenOffice.org. > The resulting code is then worked on by competing projects—either to make it > more compatible with Microsoft Office, or to make it work with established > frameworks, or whatever. > > As of now, the code is mature and powerful; it is being used by tens of > millions and being adopted by even more every year. I am not concerned about > the present, for OpenOffice.org addresses present needs more than > adequately. > > I am, however, really interested in seeing what the future brings. And for > that, I think we, the OpenOffice.org community, need to be bold. I envision > a future where the tools for intellectual production are free, use open > standards that can be widely implemented, and that are not limited to this > or that environment but freely adaptable to a range of devices, mobile or > not. > > The anchor here is the ODF, the format that transcends any particular > implementation but which is only fully realized by the most comprehensive, > OpenOffice.org. And the tools, such as those making up OpenOffice.org, to > satisfy my vision, and the vision of the community, as I understand it, must > be free and open. > But from a practical point of view there needs to be some sort of resource generator to sustain development. If Oracle withdraws all the development resource it makes it far more difficult for these aspirations to be realised. We have concrete evidence that there is demand for OpenOffice.org certification. We have the infrastructure to support it and we know that the potential income to the community could easily be in the 10s of millions of dollars. Question is how to make it most likely that that potential can be realised? ---- > > Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > Community Manager > Chair, Community Council > OpenOffice.org > > > Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ > > > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@marketing.openoffice.org with Subject: help
