RE: OO/LO License

2011-06-04 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
sorry for last mail, mistake from a lurker ;-) ## Manfred

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Richard, * 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hall > > On 6/6/11 2:48, Phil Steitz wrote: >> >> On 6/5/11 11:26 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >>> >>> On 6/6/2011 1:06 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Steitz  wrote: [...] > > Disclaimer: I work for Oracle,

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Ralph, 2011/6/6 Ralph Goers : > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: > [...] >> >> Under these conditions, I'll change my entry in the wiki. > done. > Manfred, > > I wouldn't be so hasty.  There are lots of opinions around he

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Simos, *, 2011/6/6 Simos Xenitellis : > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote: >> On 6/6/11 10:41, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: >>> >>> Hi Richard, * >>> >>> 2011/6/6 Richard S. Hall >>>> [...] >>> Fact: Your emp

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi all, 2011/6/7 Danese Cooper : > Some of you know I was closely involved in the original open-sourcing of > StarDivision code as OpenOffice.org.  I'm also an Apache Member.  Thought > some of the current discussions could benefit from a tiny bit of (no axe to > grind) history. > > This inform

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Flo, 2011/6/7 Florian Effenberger : > Hi Rob, > > robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-07 18.17: >> [...] > > let's forget about it. > > I'm not made out of sugar, as we have a saying in Germany. an another one: Der Klügere gibt nach. > But, please, > everyone, let's not focus on the past

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Ian, * 2011/6/7 Ian Lynch : >> >> and another one: >> Der Klügere gibt nach. >> >> > But, please, >> > everyone, let's not focus on the past, and let's not get personal or >> > insulting. It simply doesn't help anyone. >> > >> > Peace, >> >> Gut gemacht. ;-) >> > > Vorwärts und aufwärts > > (Ho

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi André, *, Am 7. Juni 2011 19:32 schrieb André Schnabel : > Hi, > > Am 07.06.2011 17:51, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: >> >> In Switzerland, there is the brand name "Open Office" as well. - So be >> careful. ;-) > > Last time I checked (~2 years ago)

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-08 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Dear -Rob, all, 2011/6/7 : [...] > We should be able to check the math from another direction.  Microsoft > claims something like 400 million Office users.  Studies looking at OOo > install share show approximately 10%.  Pick some random number between 6 > and 12 months.  Call it "mean time to

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-08 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi -Rob 2011/6/7 : > Danese Cooper wrote on 06/07/2011 03:43:56 PM: > >> robert_w...@us.ibm.com: >> >> Not surprisingly, you missed my point (or chose to ignore it). We at > > Honestly, your insult does surprise me. > >> Apache don't think that money is evil, but we also believe that >> seeing

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
2011/6/7 > > By my count we have now have over 60 individuals listed on as proposed > committers for the Apache OpenOffice project.   I think this is a > respectable start, though obviously the project will need to have a strong > commitment to recruiting additional developers and growing the proj

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
upps forgot ... reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) 2011/6/9 Manfred A. Reiter : [...] > Interested in helping: > Marketing, OOo in education sector, fundraising, documentation, >

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Christoph, 2011/6/9 Christoph Jopp : > Am 09.06.2011 18:32, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: >> upps forgot ... >> >> reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) >> ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) > >

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-12 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
> [  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation > [  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation > [  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation +/- 0 (non binding) I am still going back and forth, on whether or not. against: I understand very well most of the arguments from André https://mail

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
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