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

Hi Kürti, all,

Kürti László schrieb:
> Hi,
> I had some short chat with Oracle representatives they are stating official
> ly:
> ""Oracle is investing substantial resources in OpenOffice.org.  With more
> than one hundred million users, we believe OpenOffice.org is the most
> advanced, most feature rich open source implementation and will strongly
> encourage the Open Office community to continue to contribute through
> www.openoffice.org.  However, the beauty of open source is that it can
> be forked by anyone who chooses, as was done today.  Our sincerest goal
> for Open Office is that it become more widely used so if this new
> foundation will help advance Open Office and the Open Document Format we
> wish them the best.""
>
> In my opinion it means (at this very moment) that there will be OpenOffice.
> org and LibreOffice as well.

Not necessarily:

They state:

"Oracle is investing substantials resources in OpenOffice.org"

I don't know if they mean the product (developers) or the community 
(infrastructure) in this point, but both is true and has ever been 
appreciated by the volunteer part of our community.

But further down the line they talk about "Open Office" instead of 
"OpenOffice.org".

If they did this on purpose (and I have to assume, that the "official 
statement" doesn't include such mistakes), so it has to be interpreted 
as referring to "Oracle Open Office" instead of "OpenOffice.org".

So what is the "Open Office Community"?

Reading the statement again, this might mean that the "OpenOffice.org 
Community" should "... encourage the Open Office Community (sic!) to 
continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org."

I always worked on improving and furthering OpenOffice.org - not for a 
company's but for our community's sake.

I am not part of the "Open Office Community", but of the "OpenOffice.org 
Community".

Even if I still hope for the trademark to be given back to us, this 
message is at least a sign in a dedicated direction. :-(
> I don't think it is a problem, why not, if Oracle wants keep OO.o both coul
> d developed. We will see if there is real contribution or not.

They will develop Oracle Open Office - about OpenOffice.org's future 
there is nothing written in this statement.
> And anyway the OOo name and rights owned by Oracle so we could do nothing.

We will not wait very long - too much to do and to decide.

Best regards

Bernhard
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