Rob Weir wrote:
I'm reading FUD, from the usual misinformed suspects ... I
can certainly sympathize with leaders of communities that can only be
held together by irrational fears. It is not easy to maintain that
peak level of paranoia.
Your personal opinions on the people involved (I admit I have very
little context, I only had the time to read the discussion here but
nothing else so far) are best kept separated from the important fact,
that is that apparently incorrect information is being circulated about
the benefits that the Symphony donation is bringing to OpenOffice and to
the free/open-source software world in general.
Anyone who cares to look can
see that we've actually integrated quite a but of Symphony code into
the AOO trunk already. For example, the following 167 bug fixes
People don't care to look, unfortunately... But I definitely agree that
this listing is impressive, as it is this page:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Fidelity_Improvement_Since_AOO341
If you manage to co-author a blog post with Shenfeng Liu (or someone
else from the former Symphony team) about the integrated fixes/features,
this will be an important service to the OpenOffice users. But please,
let's do it because it's important in itself and because it's clearly
overdue (aside from a brief mention in the "top 10 questions" posts),
not because someone feels the need to address some particular wrong or
misleading claim.
Regards,
Andrea.
