On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
> And I'm on El Reg! > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_**alive_well/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/> > > Hope I did OK in the interview. At least I got a good closing quote, even > if it was a little tweaked in the story. I think you did fine, Shane, well done. I will observe that The Register also considered the comment about LibreOffice to be "pointed". Cross-community comments like that need to be made with extraordinary care. On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin < robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: > But maybe some good could come out of this. Why not get together to > release a statement clarifying who needs donations right now, why and > what cool stuff they are going to fund with the cash? (Something > positive with as many potential players as possible...) I think that would be a risky move. LibreOffice is not downstream from AOOo, but rather both projects share common ancestral code from StarOffice. I believe for either project to imply it is the "leader" or "owner" of the StarOffice legacy community would be divisive rather than uniting. S.
