On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Kadal Amutham <vka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My simple question why this wastage of effort and what purpose it serves? > Because we have two different licenses, Apache and GPL. These are incompatible, there really is legal ramifications and benefits to have two different licensed code of the same source. That said, this happens a lot in fLOSS, gnome vs kde, emacs, vs vim, sodipodi vs inkscape. FLOSS is the hability to fork. > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 27 June 2013 09:25, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
