Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

[Randall G. Arnold]

On February 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM Tor Lillqvist  wrote:

> > Projects like this have to
> > battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of commercial
interests.
>
> What makes you think only commercial entities have that philosophy? As
> far as I know Linux, also embraces and extends POSIX, for instance,
> and has more or less managed to extinguish quite many competing POSIX
> operating systems at least in the desktop market space.


What makes you think I thought that?

Merely mentioning one does not mean I ignore similar aspects in other
ventures/projects/etc.  I was just being specific due to the context of the
conversation.

Please try to avoid making assumptions about my thinking, thanks.  I'll
gladly return the favor.  No need IMO to ask that of a person on the list,
anyway.  I will happily explain my positions in private email.

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Re: Building LibreOffice on Windows

[Randall G. Arnold]

On February 16, 2012 at 11:23 AM "Jesús Corrius" 
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> > If at all possible, rather run Ubuntu (or some other Linux distro)
inside a
> > VMWare virtual machine on your Windows desktop.
>
> We should encourage Windows developers to join the project to have a
> better Windows version.
> Telling them to use Linux will not improve the situation.
>
> --
> Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org 


I'm new here, but I'd like to say I'm 100% in agreement.  The default
behavior should be inclusion, not exclusion.  Projects like this have to
battle the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of commercial
interests.

I've lived in both the Linux and Windows worlds for years and see
advantages/disadvantages to each.  Being as objective as I can, Microsoft
Office still "rules the roost" feature-wise.  One of the best ways for
LibreOffice to catch up and even surpass it is to get it on the Windows
platform and draw from that HUGE developer pool.  I will gladly contribute
to that effort any way I can.

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