Good points - but separate projects allows for more experimentation. Sorry, I'm one of the crazies. I read books on Evolution, and try to apply the principles that scientists are using to determine how homo sapiens sapiens and other species evolved, to how software is evolving. One of the benefits of having groups of small islands which are close enough for mammalian species to manage to cross from island to island is that you'll get different developments on each island. The individuals who manage the crossing are often among the fittest, and carry excellent genes over to the next island. If there's something they can breed with, it improves the species on that island. If there isn't, they breed, and push out a weaker species from a niche on that island.
In this case Libre Office is one island. Open Office is another. Ideas and concepts are the species - like the ribbon toolbar from the Microsoft Office Island which either hasn't managed to swim to another island yet, or hasn't managed to survive if it has, unlike the ODF file format, which has swum to several islands, and survived quite well. That's why you want lots of islands (projects) so that there's more evolutionary options (experimentation with ideas and concepts about how software should work). Wayne -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
