On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > If you forward me links I'll make sure the TDF Membership Committee takes a > look.
What are LO advocates doing on this list?. Just curious.... http://webmink.com/2012/02/19/libreoffice-video/ Where it says "OpenOffice's succesor, LibreOffice...." Let me get this straight, the forkers destroyed StarOffice, spit Oracle in the face then invited them for dinner (to join TDF), then they get upset that Oracle does not comply with their demands, they nevertheless go ahead with their fork, and when OpenOffice is donated to Apache and continues having the brand recognition, the mind share and the majority of downloads on the Windows platform, are we supposed to play nice and friendly with people who can't promote their fork without comparing themselves to Apache OO and some even spread lies all the time? ZDNet and IDG pubs have as usual been playing their cards predictably... suddenly everyone is "anti-corporate" and "corporate control" of a project is evil. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/212578/4_reasons_to_try_libreoffice.html "Oracle's apparently profit-minded actions are part of the motivation behind The Document Foundation's decision to fork OpenOffice, and they are also a good reason to choose LibreOffice instead" (if profit bad? hear, hear, someone tell Novell and Meeks!, maybe Novell can stop payments to Microsoft...) Glyn Moody writes a story when he decries Apache's statement about misinformation from the LO camp "Leaving aside the rather catty remark about "the unwarranted spread of misinformation", there is a crucially important point here. " http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/10/libreoffice-openofficeorg-and-open-standard-office-suites/index.htm And yet, he contributes to misinformation himself, by stating on the same article that ""...because Apache-licensed code requires copyright assignment from coders, and LibreOffice doesn't." He was corrected by Shane Curcuru, and had to strikeout the whole paragraph. Another example: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386963,00.asp "If you're already using OpenOffice.org as an office suite, you owe it to yourself to switch to LibreOffice. " This is what Apache has to deal with... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
