Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote on 06/03/2011 06:16:22 PM: > > I suggest: > > "The LibreOffice project is an important partner in the OpenOffice.org > community, with an established potentially highly complementary focus on the > GNU/Linux community as well as on Windows and Mac consumer end-users. We > will seek to build a constructive working and technical relationship so that > the source code developed at Apache can be readily used downstream by > LibreOffice, as well as exploring ways for upstream contributions to be > received as much as possible within the constraints imposed by mutual > licensing choices. > > There will be other ways we may be able to collaborate, including jointly > sponsored public events, interoperability 'plugfests', standards, shared > build management infrastructure, shared release mirrors, coordination of > build schedules, version numbers, defect lists, and other downstream > requirements. We will make this relationship a priority early in the life of > the podlet." >
Simon, Could you say a little of when you had in mind with this segment: "potentially highly complementary focus on the GNU/Linux community as well as on Windows and Mac consumer end-users" By one definition, "complementary" means non-overlapping, pieces that are incomplete separately, but sum to 100%. By that definition the statement could be read as saying that LO would focus on Linux, Windows and Mac consumer end-users, and Apache would not. Would you agree that majority of users of this code base on Windows and Mac are using OpenOffice.org today, not LibreOffice? I'd grant you that the opposite is likely true for Linux. So by that definition of complementary, the statement in the wiki is not really true. Assuming that is not what you intended to say, I hope it is not controversial to fix this in the wiki as: "The LibreOffice project is an important partner in the OpenOffice.org community, with an established focus on the GNU/Linux community as well as on Windows and Mac consumer end-users." (the waffling with "potentially" doesn't seem to do anything in the sentence) -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
