From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 4:28:00
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:41 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote:
In that case, you can see
@Wayne
I think that the BEST option would be to have 3 options available: 1)
Classic menu 2) Ribbon and 3) the Future ;)
(By the Future I'm referring to this topic
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impressive-mockups-td2389105.html)
The UI could be selected on first use (or later in some
really happening
with MS?
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Wayne Borean wbor...@gmail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 22:23:23
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
HI, I'm new here. Pardon me while
Glenn,
I think he's currently second richest, I can't remember his name, but
there's a guy in Mexico who owns a telecom company who is currently richer.
Of course at that level, what's a billion or two?
Wayne
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Glenn glenns...@gmail.com wrote:
Wayne,
True, I
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Wayne Borean wbor...@gmail.com wrote:
Glenn,
I think he's currently second richest, I can't remember his name, but
there's a guy in Mexico who owns a telecom company who is currently richer.
Of course at that level, what's a billion or two?
On this note, I
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Wayne Borean wbor...@gmail.com wrote:
Merge Open Office and Libre Office and you kill the competitive pressures
that would drive both projects to greater and greater heights. Keep them
apart, and you'll end up with projects that will quickly make Apple's IWork
Oracle laying off the paid developers wouldn't be good for those people.
It's quite possible that we could make a push to get them hired elsewhere.
I'm due to send in an article, and they allow me a hell of a lot of freedom
on what I write about - can you give me a list of companies which would
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Wayne Borean wbor...@gmail.com wrote:
Oracle laying off the paid developers wouldn't be good for those people.
It's quite possible that we could make a push to get them hired elsewhere.
I'm due to send in an article, and they allow me a hell of a lot of freedom
From: Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 17 April, 2011 18:32:43
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Wayne Borean wbor...@gmail.com
In that case, you can see where I'm leading the conversation, and why my
concept of 'Free Software Darwinism' could be really important to us, and
scary as hell to Microsoft.
Wayne
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
@Wayne
Being a biologist, I find your
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:41 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote:
In that case, you can see where I'm leading the conversation, and why my
concept of 'Free Software Darwinism' could be really important to us, and
scary as hell to Microsoft.
Wayne
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:12 PM, plino
Quoting planas jsloz...@gmail.com:
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:41 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote:
In that case, you can see where I'm leading the conversation, and why my
concept of 'Free Software Darwinism' could be really important to us, and
scary as hell to Microsoft.
Wayne
On Sun, Apr 17,
On 04/15/2011 04:21 PM, Vic Dura wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/15/oracle_letting_openoffice_go/
Oracle is turning OpenOffice into a purely community project, and no
longer plans to offer a commercial version of the collaboration suite
loved by many.
I _think_ you are looking
Not quite so sure I would agree with that one Dave. I supported a Fortune
100 at one point, and they spent a bundle on MS Office licenses to be sure.
They also paid site licenses for all their Windows servers. At the time,
Server came with 5 seats.
On Apr 17, 2011 10:53 PM, Dave Stevens
Very interesting. Quote from article:
Although LibreOffice provided an alternative, it's sorely lacking in the
kind of brand recognition held by OpenOffice, while as a fork it was within
Oracle's power to accept changes in LibreOffice back in the main code base.
I was under the impression that
: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
Very interesting. Quote from article:
Although LibreOffice provided an alternative, it's sorely lacking in the
kind of brand recognition held by OpenOffice, while as a fork it was within
Oracle's power to accept changes in LibreOffice back in the main
From: aqualung xfekdcugj...@mailinator.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 7:09:22
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
Very interesting. Quote from article:
Although LibreOffice provided an alternative, it's sorely
On 16/04/11 07:09, aqualung wrote:
[...]
It could be risky for them to reveal much while the situation
is in flux. At the same time there are hundreds of thousands of users who
are probably quite anxious to find out what's in the cards for their
preferred office software.
I thought ODF was
Good morning Tom ;)
Although I agree with most of your arguments, Microsoft's position on Office
has changed a lot lately.
First it is almost impossible to buy a new Win7 machine which doesn't have
some version of Office bundled. It varies from a Trial version to a Starter
version and sometimes
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi :)
Brand recognition is building rapidly, more rapidly than Google grew in it's
first 6months. Recognition of the OpenOffice brand is not necessarily a bonus
given that many people found it clunky and incompatible
Tom Davies wrote:
snip
It was a cheap way for Oracle to hurt their rival ?? Sun you (Ellison)
idiot. Not Oracle, but Sun was the company that owned OpenOffice and did
the
work of preventing the community from developing the product.
Ahem, Tom... Those were my words, so I guess it's
Ryan Jendoubi wrote:
On 16/04/11 07:09, aqualung wrote:
[...]
It could be risky for them to reveal much while the situation
is in flux. At the same time there are hundreds of thousands of users who
are probably quite anxious to find out what's in the cards for their
preferred office
From: aqualung xfekdcugj...@mailinator.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 10:27:36
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
Tom Davies wrote:
snip
It was a cheap way for Oracle to hurt their rival
On 4/16/2011 at 2:07 AM plino wrote:
[snip]
|
|On a second (and probably more important) front, Microsoft silently
retired
|the Office Genuine Advantage check which prevented illegal copies to
be
|updated
|http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-quietly-shuts-down-office-genu
From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 10:07:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice
Good morning Tom ;)
Although I agree with most of your arguments, Microsoft's position
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: plino pedl...@gmail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 10:07:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of
OpenOffice
Good morning
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 10:07:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of
OpenOffice
Good morning Tom ;)
Although I agree with most of your arguments, Microsoft's position on
Office
has changed a lot lately.
First it is almost impossible to buy a new
: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of
OpenOffice
Good morning Tom ;)
Although I agree with most of your arguments, Microsoft's position on
Office
has changed a lot lately.
First it is almost impossible to buy a new Win7 machine which doesn't
have
some version of Office
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