Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:58:45PM -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. --

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
"Allen Pulsifer" wrote on 06/02/2011 06:58:45 PM: > > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks. This is a great summary of the history. . . . > > Despite the fact the IBM's vision for OpenOffice seems

RE: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: > Allen Pulsifer wrote: > > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. +1 --- Noel

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:22, wrote: >... > The only concrete thing I've heard so far is the question of whether > subversion can handle the project. I would be extremely surprised if Subversion could not handle it. I'd like to know more about the problems that the OO.o devs ran into. >  Are th

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Allen Pulsifer wrote: >> > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to > offer >> > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. >> Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. > >

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, wrote: > "Allen Pulsifer" wrote on 06/02/2011 06:58:45 PM: >> Second, if Apache takes on OpenOffice, it will instantly become the > Apache >> project with the largest number of end-users (if you include the number > of >> users of both the Apache version and i