Hi Malte! It's a pleasure to see you here… On 13-03-27, at 09:51 , Malte Timmermann <malte_timmerm...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 24.03.2013 18:29, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> No doubt many here have already noted this: >>> <https://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/open-xchange-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite-214882> >>> >>> It's interesting. One could hope for possibilities of collaboration, >>> license permitting. >>> >> >> Our code is free for anyone to use, under a permissive license. But >> it is not clear to me that our code would be particularly useful to >> them. > > For OX Text, we actually can't use any code of OOo… Yeah, we came to that conclusion. Alas. > > But for converting different kinds of documents, we make use of OOo in the > backend. We found and fixed some issues, and are contributing back the > patches… Thanks! I was also thinking, though Rob wasn't, and maybe Dennis wasn't either, that there are other areas where collaboration, at least of the passive sort, can help the overall ODF and "open source" community. For instance, localizations. One could envision establishing a set of strings that can be used in common by relevant applications. As well, as you probably recall, we have the Oasis OIC (interoperability/compatibility) TC. Would be great to include OX Text there, at least for starters, so that users can feel less concerned about vendor lockin. And then there are the mobile-users among us. I'm working with one very promising group that does not use OOo technology but would be able to view/edit OOXML and ODF text; at least that's the idea. Given the array of mobile options out there, and the fact that there is no good solution to mobiles for enterprises, yet, and "enterprise" can include education and other public sector efforts, I think there would be plenty of opportunity to "collaborate," if not on code then on establishing a strong set of options that would break through the we-have-no-choice mentality we all love to hate. Oh, then there is accessibility. You remember that, yes? :-) > > Malte. Cheers louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
