Wow! They sound interesting. I am getting the impression that most people in OpenSource projects have a similar role although we usually have more control over how deeply involved we get and in which parts of the project.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David H. Lipman <dlip...@verizon.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 20:21:53 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums! From: "Tom Davies" <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > Hi :) > Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it". > Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few > weeks ago. > > There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2 > projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in both > again. It's bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so > it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a "poisoned > pawn". I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF, > effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable. Then IBM > donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable. > OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary > mind-set again. > > Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have taken > place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting > "Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead. Still, it's probably best >not > to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel > especially if it's not directly from MS. > Regards from > Tom :) > Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* solutions that may not be a Microsoft solution. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
