On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Malte Timmermann <malte_timmerm...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi Louis, > > > On 24.03.2013 00:38, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> >> >> On 13-03-23, at 19:11 , "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> >> wrote: >> >>> The server is GPL and the JavaScripts that run in clients, Outlook, etc., >>> are Creative Commons attribution-share-alike-noncommercial. None of that is >>> Apache friendly. >> >> >> Indeed; hence my wistful hope. >> >>> >>> More information: >>> >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange>. >>> The licenses apply to different parts of the code base. >>> >>> From this >>> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/open-xchange?trk=prof-following-company-logo> >>> I notice that Martin Holmichel is Senior Product Manager and that Malte >>> Timmerman is Head of Development in Hamburg. >> >> >> Quite. I am indeed sorry that both Malte and Martin chose this path but >> it's quite possible they chose wisely—let's see. >> > > Assuming that you talk about working for Open-Xchange now (instead of > staying full time OOo contributors), and not about the choice of licenses > (which OX is using for many years now): > > I guess most people here know that we didn't chose to stop working on OOo > full time, but that it was purely Oracle's decisions to - let's put it this > way - not to have an OOo team anymore... > > And believe me - with working for Open-Xchange now, Malte and Martin did > choose wisely :) > > Like did the many other people from the former Sun/Oracle OpenOffice.org > team, who now work in the OX Hamburg team too. > > Actually, these people make up a 100% of the Hamburg team. OX launched the > Hamburg site just for/with us. > > OX is a nice place to work. Nice people, great product. > Open Source for a long time, now also with office productivity. > > Afterwards, everybody here is happy that Oracle gave us "the opportunity" to > work for Open-Xchange on OX Documents now - nobody is looking back. >
Hi Malte, I'm glad it worked out, and that you were able to use and grow your knowledge and experience in the same general technology area. Documents are not going away, though we may use different tools. But surely this news must be confusing to all those who have been told, in press releases, blog posts and even on Wikipedia that most of the OpenOffice developers went to LibreOffice? -Rob > Malte. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
