On Jan 21, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> >>> Take a look at the lovely new page: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice >>> Some choice bits of distortion: >> >> >> >> Thanks for publicising this. I really did mean I wanted more eyes on it. >> >> Useful pages in dealing with contentious topics (which is everything): >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources >> >> Cheers, looking forward to help. The talk page welcomes you! >> >> Anyone with a good clippings file for the history of OO from 2000? >> Such a history, that gets across *why* OO is as historically important >> as it is, is not yet written, as far as I know. I went through the OO >> clippings pages and archive.org but didn't find a lot.
We tried to preserve all the web content at www.openoffice.org. Here are some links: http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/ http://www.openoffice.org/about/ http://www.openoffice.org/awards/index.html http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/testimonials.html Regards, Dave >> >> >> - d. > > > David, > Extensive records of OOo since its inception in 2000 exist. My own > understanding is that the milestones are still obvious. I have personal > accounts, but these would need to be validated by public citation. > > The generally useful milestone pages may still, too, be available via > the Internet Archive, of > course; but that goes without saying--? > louis > David Gerard wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> Take a look at the lovely new page: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice >>> Some choice bits of distortion: >> >> >> Thanks for publicising this. I really did mean I wanted more eyes on it. >> >> Useful pages in dealing with contentious topics (which is everything): >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources >> >> Cheers, looking forward to help. The talk page welcomes you! >> >> Anyone with a good clippings file for the history of OO from 2000? >> Such a history, that gets across *why* OO is as historically important >> as it is, is not yet written, as far as I know. I went through the OO >> clippings pages and archive.org but didn't find a lot. >> >> >> - d. > > -- > Louis Suárez-Potts, PhD > Age of Peers, Inc. > Twitter: @luispo > Skype: louisiam > GMail: lui...@gmail.com > Mobile: +1.416.625.3843 >
