Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums - A Different Question

On Mon, 02 May 2011 19:49:53 -0700
NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 04/30/2011 01:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> > Harold Fuchs wrote:
> > > Has Oracle given permission for TDF to use its forum, or doesn't
> > > TDF need such permission? Does TDF *want* to use an Oracle
> > > resource?
> >
> > I think Drew has already explained this on multiple mailing lists,
> > anyway: the forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ are run
> > by community members and not by Oracle, they explicitly include
> > LibreOffice among the supported software (see page header), they
> > can be used with no need for permissions from Oracle, and they are
> > probably the best place where LibreOffice users can get support if
> > they don't like mailing lists.
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Andrea.
>
> Sorry, but I'd have to disagree...
> http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use
> The resources are owned and operated by Oracle.

It's no contraction that the resource is made available by Oracle and
the forum is run by community members as stated by Drew. 

Didn't Oracle anyhow recently announce that OpenOffice.org will become
a pure community project?


> Whilst http://user.services.openoffice.org may (currently) tolerate LO
> posts, 

No, they don't just tolerate it, they explicitly support LibrOffice
posts:

"User community support forum for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, NeoOffice
and LibreOffice"


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