Hi, Am 01.10.2010 20:31, schrieb Bernhard Dippold: >> ""Oracle is investing substantial resources in OpenOffice.org. With more >> than one hundred million users, we believe OpenOffice.org is the most >> advanced, most feature rich open source implementation and will strongly >> encourage the Open Office community to continue to contribute through >> www.openoffice.org. However, the beauty of open source is that it can >> be forked by anyone who chooses, as was done today. Our sincerest goal >> for Open Office is that it become more widely used so if this new >> foundation will help advance Open Office and the Open Document Format we >> wish them the best."" >> >> In my opinion it means (at this very moment) that there will be >> OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice as well.
> Not necessarily: > They state: > "Oracle is investing substantials resources in OpenOffice.org" > I don't know if they mean the product (developers) or the community > (infrastructure) in this point, but both is true and has ever been > appreciated by the volunteer part of our community. > But further down the line they talk about "Open Office" instead of > "OpenOffice.org". > If they did this on purpose (and I have to assume, that the "official > statement" doesn't include such mistakes), so it has to be interpreted > as referring to "Oracle Open Office" instead of "OpenOffice.org". > So what is the "Open Office Community"? > Reading the statement again, this might mean that the "OpenOffice.org > Community" should "... encourage the Open Office Community (sic!) to > continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org." Bernhard thanks a lot for pointing this out! (me too tried to drive attention on that on the german list) > I always worked on improving and furthering OpenOffice.org - not for a > company's but for our community's sake. > I am not part of the "Open Office Community", but of the "OpenOffice.org > Community". > Even if I still hope for the trademark to be given back to us, this > message is at least a sign in a dedicated direction. :-( well said... ;-) >> I don't think it is a problem, why not, if Oracle wants keep OO.o both >> could developed. We will see if there is real contribution or not. > They will develop Oracle Open Office - about OpenOffice.org's future > there is nothing written in this statement. guess why >> And anyway the OOo name and rights owned by Oracle so we could do >> nothing. > We will not wait very long - too much to do and to decide. Thanks again, "waiting for Godot" ;-) cheers Erich -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
