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

On 3 Jun 2011, at 19:59, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

> On 01/06/2011 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:51:09AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > > <http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-about-oracles-move-to-donate-openoffice-org-assets-to-the-apache-foundation/>
> >
> > TDF's statement included :
> >
> > "Today we welcome Oracle’s donation of code that has previously been
> > proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key
> > user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice."
> >
> > Since when is OOo proprietary?
>
> I actually asked for a clarification in one of the first comments (#7 at
> above link), more than 48 hours ago, but nothing happened so far.
>
> Either the sentence just means that the code in OpenOffice.org and
> LibreOffice dating back to around 15 years ago was at that time
> proprietary (and this would be totally irrelevant in context, and I
> wouldn't know why someone would write it and relate it to "key user
> features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice")...
>
> ...or it means that people who wrote that blog post know that Oracle
> released more than just the OpenOffice.org code (and here the candidates
> would obviously be the proprietary components of "Oracle Open Office":
> incremental updates, Alfresco plugin, migration tools... why not, even
> Oracle Cloud Office).
>
> I hope that the right interpretation is the latter, since this would
> mean a significant advance available for OpenOffice.org-based suites.
> But I really cannot guess what the statement meant. The OpenOffice.org
> Apache Incubator Proposal does not contain elements that would justify
> that sentence in the Document Foundation statement.

It could just be that the author was trying hard to be positive.

S.


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