Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?

Hi Steven,

great to read you again :-)

Steven Shelton schrieb:
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> Is LibreOffice a new fork of OOo, or is this essentially the same as
> when the Mozilla Foundation completely took over the Netscape/Firefox
> project? In other words, will new versions of OpenOffice.org continue
> to be developed and supported/made available for download at
> OpenOffice.org, or is OpenOffice.org (the product) now renamed
> LibreOffice, meaning all new development will take place under that
> moniker?

This depends very much on the reaction of Oracle:

If they insist on keeping the trademark given to Sun Microsystems 
because the community hadn't an entity to claim violations and abuse, we 
will not be able to use our good name OpenOffice.org any more.

In this case we'll have to stick to LibreOffice, what will be a fork, 
because they probably won't allow their developers to code for 
LibreOffice while they try to keep the product alive and damage LibreOffice.

But this would be the public visible action verifying the fear that 
Oracle is much interested in Oracle (Open?) Office, but not in 
contributing to the OpenOffice.org community.

As they didn't announce their decision publicly, it's just an assumption 
to this state of time.

I hope very much that we'll have the chance to keep on working as the 
community we've been in the past, but with more freedom and broader 
support by people and constitutions previously hesitating to contribute 
and donating to a project lead and probably governed by a single company.
> And is LibreOffice Beta the same as OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta 1, but
> rebranded? What's the relationship between the two?

I'm not a developer, but I as I've been told, its OOo3.3 Beta with some 
of the most stable Go-oo patches included.

Best regards

Bernhard

... knowing about the problem of different target groups for developer 
and marketing / ux / user base...
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