Hi Simon and everyone; --- Gio 12/7/12, Shenfeng Liu ha scritto: ... > > > > What hasn't been discussed in detail, and the key issue > > to me, is how much "OpenOffice plus Symphony" would > > differ from "Symphony plus OpenOffice". > > > > Ideally, finally there will be little difference between > "OpenOffice plus Symphony"and "Symphony plus OpenOffice" > when we totally integrated the values from both side. > But I can see in 2 years or even longer time, we can > not make it. So there will be quite big differences. >
I think we all agree two years is a lot of time. We can always start with option I and re-evaluate later on. I would propose the following: For 3.x Release (x>4) we go option I merging only the things that are easy and perhaps a restricted set of CWSs. No UI or drastic changes. For 4.x we go for option II and rebase on Symphony. Part of what was done for 3.5+ will likely be useful here. Another thing that we haven't discussed at all are the patent issues. _____ If you don't like speculation please stop reading here. _____ The current AOO code has a patent grant from Oracle. The Symphony code adds a patent grant from IBM. It is well known that IBM has more office-relevant patents than Oracle which will likely be an important advantage for most of our users. Pedro.
