Hi :) It is great news for both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Consolidating some of the forks makes it easier to collaborate and give both products a significant boost. 'Obviously' the different licenses limit the amout of collaoration but there are still a lot of people that work on both products or work with friends and colleagues in both. In many ways it is still 1 community with 2 products that compete co-operatively.
LibreOffice development is very active and has already gone through the process that Apache are just starting. Some devs and others may enjoy stepping backwards to repeat that process but it leads in a slightly different direction this time. LibreOffice continues to be increasingly faster and lighter. TDF devs have already discussed this at length and all seem to want to stay with LO, to move forwards faster. I'm not on the devs list so that is just the impression i have from other people that do follow those lists. Hopefully with a load of IBM devs paid to work on OOo the Apache Foundation might recover from some of the damage Oracle & even Sun did by not driving the product(s) forwards as fast as the voluntary and other community devs wanted. In LibreOffice the devs are able to get their code through decent QA & into the releases at their own pace, ie faster. Bugs get fixed faster and new features get added faster with the freedoms that TDF offers. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Andy Brown <a...@the-martin-byrd.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 17 July, 2011 20:23:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the Apache OpenOffice Project Luuk wrote: >http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=955E9C0EC712EC47852578CD0063A209&category=announcements >s > > Is it time for the LO-developers to get back with OpenOffice too ? > In a word, no. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted