> -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com]
> In fact Go-OO was started by Ximian in 2003, long before Novell bought > them, as a convenient build system for developers not working > within Sun. > The difficulty of getting the Sun team to accept patches, and the > complexity of the Sun build system, meant that most > developers external to > Sun used Go-OO as their repository. > > There were indeed strong words spoken by many people > (including me on Sun's > behalf) but for the most part Go-OO maintained its role as a > downstream > convenience for non-Sun contributors and played a positive > role developing > a developer community around the code. I think we would all > be well served > by dropping the decade-old hostility to it at this point. For me, the one who is working against OpenOffice, or members of the OpenOffice community offended, an opponent of OpenOffice. I will never forgive what Michael Meeks said against OpenOffice! No way Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
