Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-06 Thread Caio Tiago Oliveira
Nguyen Vu Hung, 06-09-2010 15:36: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Vikram Gaur wrote: Hi All, Community should have another derivative with all features and compatibilities Could anyone explain that is there any legal issue forking OOo? There is no "legal" issue. But forks shouldn't be

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-06 Thread Nguyen Vu Hung
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Vikram Gaur wrote: > Hi All, > > Community should have another derivative with all features and > compatibilities > > Could anyone explain that is there any legal issue forking OOo? -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu [aka: NVH] ( in Vietnamese: Nguyễn Vũ Hưng ) vu

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-06 Thread Drew Jensen
On 09/06/2010 04:18 AM, Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:15 -0300, Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: We don't need to fork that right now, Agreed +1 but we should invest more on attracting investments. That will make it easy if we have to fork in the future and will help the project, anyway.

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-06 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:15 -0300, Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: > We don't need to fork that right now, Agreed > but we should invest more on > attracting investments. That will make it easy if we have to fork in the > future and will help the project, anyway. That is what I have been saying f

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Rudolph Barnard
Hi Luiz, Good Job!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!! On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:52 AM, luiz wrote: > Hi, > > After many hesitations, so many doubts about the future of > OpenOffice.org, Oracle has been publicly saying that "supports the > software revolution". The more hurried they could understand that,

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: > Ian, 05-09-2010 17:56: > > And perhaps if Go-OO harbors enough supporters, it may branch off >>> Oracle completely. >>> >> >> Possibly, but for true independence and a chance of competing it needs >> an income and I don't see much evi

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Caio Tiago Oliveira
Ian, 05-09-2010 17:56: And perhaps if Go-OO harbors enough supporters, it may branch off Oracle completely. Possibly, but for true independence and a chance of competing it needs an income and I don't see much evidence of capability in generating it at a level that will compete with the resou

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread jonathon
Simon Brouwer wrote: Are there any concrete reasons to believe that Oracle's strategy with OpenOffice.org is going to be radically different than Sun's? Yes. a) Look at the change in both the cost, and minimum number of licenses for the ODF extension Sun created for use with MSO; b) The

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Simon Brouwer wrote: > Hi Luiz, > > Are there any concrete reasons to believe that Oracle's strategy with > OpenOffice.org is going to be radically different than Sun's? > It is not impossible that, at some point in time, Oracle's management could > decide that

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:52 PM, luiz wrote: > Hi, > > After many hesitations, so many doubts about the future of > OpenOffice.org, Oracle has been publicly saying that "supports the > software revolution". The more hurried they could understand that, > finally, was a declaration of love Free Soft

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Lars Nooden
On 09/05/2010 02:44 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote: > But as it stands I believe it is disrespectful and foolish to cast > unwarranted suspicions on Oracle. Sun Microsystems has made tremendous > efforts in the development of OpenOffice.org, for which we should be > thankful. And if Oracle plans to conti

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Simon, everyone, It's true that some of the accusations against Oracle are pure speculation, and we can't really know what Oracle plans for OOo. However, I personally don't trust Oracle anymore and feel that Oracle poses a danger to open-source rather than a benefit. I could understand that they

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Luiz, Are there any concrete reasons to believe that Oracle's strategy with OpenOffice.org is going to be radically different than Sun's? It is not impossible that, at some point in time, Oracle's management could decide that to continue the development and support of OpenOffice.org is no

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Mirek M.
Hi everyone, 2010/9/5 Ian > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 14:24 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Community should have another derivative with all features and > > compatibilities > > The community needs the resources to support and maintain a code base > that is complex and difficult to de

Re: [marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-05 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 14:24 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > Hi All, > > Community should have another derivative with all features and > compatibilities The community needs the resources to support and maintain a code base that is complex and difficult to develop and maintain. That is the reality. Th

[marketing] The Caesar what is Caesar's

2010-09-04 Thread luiz
Hi, After many hesitations, so many doubts about the future of OpenOffice.org, Oracle has been publicly saying that "supports the software revolution". The more hurried they could understand that, finally, was a declaration of love Free Software. Concept is wrong! It is not hatred to Free Software