Re: [tdf-discuss] Triple licensing?

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 19:04, Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see the desktop effort here at LibO and the developers at Apache
> start on a new web based OOo even if that meant starting from scratch and
> writing it in Javascript. Seems to me that without a web based version both
> LibreO and OOo could become irrelevant anyway. Since LibO is already solidly
> in the desktop groove it makes much more efficient use of resources for
> Apache OOo to go to the web and also fits the Apache culture better. Files
> would be interchangeable between desktop and web, 100% through odf. OK, it's
> a big ask but this is probably the only opportunity that will arise for such
> a big shift in strategy.  This strategy would mean anyone needing OOo now
> has LibO for continuity while the web version is being created so if it
> takes a couple of years it is not a disaster. Better to spend time on long
> term sustainability than patching up and sorting out code that really
> duplicates what is already available at LibO. Ok IBM symphony might be an
> issue in that scenario but the project is not there simply to support that
> product and I see wider and higher priorities.

If I'm not mistaken, the SC sees LibreOffice as remaining a firmly
desktop-based suite, although they are thinking about a complementary
Web-based component of some kind. I must admit that I'd like the
software to remain on my computer without me hanging from strings
rooted somewhere on the Web or in a cloud (not even a local one).

-- 
David Nelson

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