Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > My point is not that having a good discussion about OpenOffice.org is out of the question > here, on OOo lists. I find that fine, and the location quite proper. But such a discussion > ought to be-must be-about OOo, its NLCs, its contributors, its goals, its options. Such a > discussion, in other words is not really about TDF or LO, and to understand our options as > only being one or the other is really to cut short what could otherwise be a really healthy > reassessment of opportunities.
> Naturally, I also believe that any discussion in which we begin to lay out approaches to the > future of OOo development-and there is a future-really needs to be done carefully, as > it's *easy* to be misunderstood by others, however good willing they be, when the context > is so very charged. First of all, the conversation we are having is about the future of OpenOffice.org development. Florian Effenberger wrote to say that he thinks the best place for OpenOffice.org development is within The Document Foundation. That is a conversation about OpenOffice.org and it is a perfectly valid proposal, and in fact, the best and only proposal we have seen so far. Second, the OpenOffice.org name is owned and controlled by Oracle. Any further software releases under the OpenOffice.org name, and any further development of the OpenOffice.org website will only happen with Oracle's agreement. It appears however that there is no one here representing Oracle. Oracle has basically "taken its ball and gone home". Without representation from Oracle, we can conversate all we want, but it will go nowhere. Is there a contact person at Oracle who is authorized and willing to speak and act on behalf of Oracle, and who can convey to us what Oracle wants and is willing to agree to regarding the continued development and release of software under the OpenOffice.org name? Allen -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@marketing.openoffice.org with Subject: help
