you can argue the same thing for every different linux distro. Thre are mantainers of the same software packages on two (or actually many) Linux distributions which are different FTP servers all over the internet that end up on the same mirrors. Volunteers do repetitive marketing and localization tasks for each distro.
welcome to free software. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Kadal Amutham <vka...@apache.org> wrote: > Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice are developed by fully / mostly by > volunteers. Both serve the same purpose. Two separate teams of volunteers > are doing the same work. In both teams, many volunteers are translating > same sentences repeatedly. > > As you are aware volunteers are not paid. So the time and effort of > volunteers are very precious and one should be very careful that there is > no wastage. In my opinion any wastage of volunteers effort and time is a > crime. > > I am sorry to say that this crime is happening in both LO and AOO > > > V.Kadal Amutham > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
