On 09/28/2010 05:30 AM, Michael Adams wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2010 19:22, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > >> The Document Foundation has released a beta version of Officelibre in >> order to fork from the possible proprietary way that Oracle is taking >> Open Office..... >> Unfortunately the Linux version seems to be only an RPM at this moment... >> >> http://www.documentfoundation.org/ >> >> > Please discuss OpenOffice.org issues on the Discuss list. > > My concern is the way the announcement was worded, it seems that what they are saying is OOo will not be continued and it will not be known be its new name. To me it reads that there will be no more work on OOo in favor of the new "foundation office software".
So it is an OOo issue. If the world at large sees the announcement like I see it, then they to would feel that OOo will not longer be developed and you will need to switch to this new product if you want the newest development in the OOo type of free office suite. Does the message seem to you that they wanted to come across that the key developers are moving to the "foundation project" and you better switch to this new package as soon as it is out of the Beta stage? When I read it, it made me wonder what will happen to OOo, its web site, its extensions, and everything else that I cone to rely upon. The only thing that made me think twice about is the contact people are all in Europe, and could this be a new aspect to the Euro-Office fork of the OOo software? So this needs to be discussed so we can figure out what will happen when these "key developers" no longer support OOo as we know it today? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
