Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software Foundation'sIncubator

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> From: "Harold Fuchs" <hwfa.libreoffice@gmail.com>
> Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software
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> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:30:55 +0100
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> "plino" <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote in message =
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> news:1307086982610-3018856.post@n3.nabble.com...
> > As a user I wouldn't be happy IF the devs split up between two projects.
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> > The way I see it is IBM and maybe some Oracle devs will work on OOo and
> > everybody else will work on LO...
> >
> > The good part (besides the Apache license which allows LO to use what =
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> > little
> > code will be openly contributed to OOo) is that IBM will continue to =
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> > develop
> > ODF, which badly needs it.
> >
> > I find it a little absurd that the people behind a file format that has =
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> > been
> > under development for years haven't implemented font embedding... Of =
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> > course,
> > fonts are not important for serious business companies :)
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> The LO folk left the OOo group because OOo was, in their opinion, going to =
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> be over-controlled (by Oracle). Now that this is no longer true, the LO fol=
> k =
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> don't have a case and should return to the fold. So, why don't the LO folk =
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> do a deal with Apache, combine the best bits of OOo with LO to get back to =
> a =
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> single "product" and form jointly with the Apache folk an "LO Foundation". =
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> It seems completely crazy to have two sets of developers and two sets of =
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> code. All that does is sow FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in the minds o=
> f =
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> potential users.

This is bizarre; there is strength in competition. The beauty of
gnu/linux is the variety in distributions; the world is big enough for
OO and LO and many others to adopt the DF ODF standard.

> Oh, and by the way, get rid of the asinine name "LibreOffice" which half th=
> e =
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> world can't pronounce and which three quarters of the world doesn't =
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> understand the meaning of.

This seems a ludicrous statement to make. Perhaps you should learn
another language, especially living in probably the most
linguistically diverse city in the world.

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