Hi, last week I gave a talk about OpenOffice on the LinuxTag conference in Berlin.
The attendance was moderate and I got the bad first slot in the morning 10:00am after the LinuxTag party on Thursday ;-) It was an interesting interruption of my vacation. My main goal was to express that OpenOffice was never dead and the project have found a new home at Apache. I highlighted our achievements and of course our release as important milestone. Presenting our nice download numbers was also a pleasure for me ;-) I also expressed my view that OpenOffice.org = Apache OpenOffice go-oo = LibreOffice based on the facts that we own all rights on the name and the domains, the source code. And we have reserved and migrated the whole infra structure... And on www.go-oo.org you can see the relation to LibreOffice. And that not the complete community have moved to LibreOffice. But I have pointed out that it is my personal view ;-) I also pointed out that we don't want to compete with LibreOffice (also my personal opinion) and that our main focus and goal is to provide a good, stable, high quality, free and intuitive office application. A further point was that I tried to express that our users will decide in the future which office they will prefer and that we will focus on our users and their real demand. Based on the discussion after my talk it is clear that many people don't understand the split anymore and would appreciate if both projects would work together. But that is a political question that can't be answered easily. I think with the Apache license we provide a possible basement but the license question is much more complicate for some people. Juergen
