Wow! They sound interesting. I am getting the impression that most people in OpenSource projects have a similar role although we usually have more control over how deeply involved we get and in which parts of the project. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David H. Lipman <DLipman@Verizon.Net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 20:21:53 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended onMicrosoftAnswers Forums! From: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
Hi :) Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it". Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few weeks ago. There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2 projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in both again. It's bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a "poisoned pawn". I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF, effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable. Then IBM donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable. OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary mind-set again. Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have
taken
place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting "Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead. Still, it's probably best not to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel especially if it's not directly from MS. Regards from Tom :)
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