May I ask what purpose is there in changing it either way? On 4/7/06, Joerg Barfurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uhh. In short descriptions you may encounter another twist: the common > codebase, now hosted on OpenOffice.org and which forms the base for the > OpenOffice.org and StarOffice products, that codebase itself is > originally based on an older version of StarOffice code, which was > released (to OOo) by Sun. > > So StarOffice (the product) and OpenOffice.org (the application) is > based on OpenOffice.org (the source code), which is in turn based on > StarOffice (ver 5.2+changes/the source code). Additionally the most part > of the development that happened on OpenOffice.org since its inception > was done by StarOffice development at Sun, and could also be claimed to > be 'based on StarOffice'. > > Thus for any description that says that one or (StarOffice, > OpenOffice.org) is based on the other, you need to find out in what > sense these names are used (the product, the source code, the project, > the people?) and in what sense they are supposed to be 'based' on the > other. > > That said, if you know of any particular descriptions that need fixing, > you need to contact the owner/maintainer of that page/site/project. > Unfortunately every instance has to be fixed individually. There is no > magic incantation to semantically fix an entire site ... > > -Jörg > > Lars D. Noodén wrote: > > Thanks. Some of the short descriptions of OOo and SO could use updating > > to reflect this. > > > > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Joerg Barfurth wrote: > > > >> Neither. There is only one codebase from which both StarOffice and > >> OpenOffice.org are built. Corresponding milestone builds of StarOffice > >> and Sun-built OpenOffice.org even share a significant part of the > >> binary files (i.e. they are packaged from the same build). > >> > >> Both products add some components or branding elements that the other > >> doesn't have. For OpenOffice.org the source for these elements lives > >> in the OOo CVS, for SO most of it lives in a private source code > >> repository at Sun. In this very limited sense you could say OOo source > >> is the base for SO source. > >> > > > -- > Joerg Barfurth Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using std::disclaimer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thin Client Software > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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