On 10/10/15 13:48, donaldupre wrote:
>The decision making will stay with Apache.
There is nothing preventing an organization from collecting the source
code Apache releases, modifying it, and commercially distributing the
resulting program. As such, Apache's decision making becomes totally
irrele
Please allow me to clarify. According to your suggestion, the contributors
will be managed by Apache. The decision making will stay with Apache. But
apache proved to fail in those aspects...
About creating a derivative product, after reading so many comments and
opinions online suggesting a merge o
donaldupre . wrote:
What does it take to buy back OpenOffice from Apache?
I'm sure there are commercial entities that will be happy to develop it.
Those entities can ask their employees to contribute to OpenOffice, and
help shape the project with their contributions. This addresses all
items
There is the brand name "OpenOffice" to be bought.
The exact problems with Apache:
1. Lack of releases, should be 3-4 per year as minimum.
2. The tired and boring look and feel of the homepage, blog, facebook,
twitter.
3. Lack of innovation, the sidebar is not an example for innovation.
4. The lost
Hi
OpenOffice is under a very liberal license: anyone can fork it and continue
developing it independently (eg. NeoOffice), there's nothing to be bought.
What are your exact problems with the job Apache is doing?
Regards
Damjan
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, donaldupre . wrote:
> Hi
> Wha
Hi
What does it take to buy back OpenOffice from Apache?
I'm sure there are commercial entities that will be happy to develop it.
Apache isn't doing a great job...
Best regards,
Don
PS I don't want a merge with LibreOffice!
