DF programmers should join the Apache OO committee merely to be aware of activities in this product. LO should remain separate as a full GPL product. Presumably, if DF members become aware of feature X becoming imminent in apache OO, they can make a proposal for a similar feature to be copied/improved in LO. The analogy is opera introducing tabbed web pages in a browser and firefox later introducing the same function.
More separately developed ODF compliant products in the market is a good result, just like there are numerous gnu/linux distributions for users to choose. The proliferation of many ODF products gives powerful confidence to users that if apache OO (any other ODF compliant product( disappears, the user can switch to using LO. It should be remembered that this cannot occur with m$o and this is the single most dominant benefit of numerous ODF programs to the user. It is the "killer reason" to use LO. In summary, please do not merge apache OO (or any non-(L)GPL) code with LO. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted