<quote who="Gregory Leblanc"> > While this is all technically true, I think it's somewhat misleading, > based on my recollections, and what I could find in a brief browse of > the mailing list archives. > There was much clearer leadership in the community then, but I do not > believe that the community came to a conclusion that we would cede > development of a GNOME office to OpenOffice.org. My impression of what > happened was more that the community never got a cohesive and > self-sustaining effort going to make a GNOME Office suite happen.
It certainly wasn't a consensus, or a clear "decision", but the energy of popular thought in the community along with decreased investment led to us ceding our office/productivity leadership at the time to OpenOffice.org. We were actually well ahead, but OpenOffice.org had the weight of existing features, code and commercial interest. Thinking about it in those terms, I regret it even more. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "Spam is about consent, not content." - Craig Sanders _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
