On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, RA Stehmann <anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I can understand your concerns, but they aren't drasticly. > > I'm with you, that we have to make clear, the Box isn't a product of the > ASF but distributed by the "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V..". > > But on the other hand the "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V.." isn't > any old third party. >
We need to be fair. Treating one 3rd party special is not fair. > It's a charitable german entity supporting Free office software. It's > still supporting Apache OpenOffice. The computer an the monitor at our > Fosdem stand were provided by "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V..". > > Disclaimer: I'm no member of that club, but know persons who are. > > So IMO it's ok to put that news in the news line of the homepage, making > clear, who's the distributor of that product. > I'd be much happier if the German community listened to what I am saying and took steps to address the full issue. IMHO you need to add a page that gives equal access to all 3rd party ports and distributions, and not just favor a single one with a news announcement. If you then give announcements of updates to these distributions, whenever they occur, and do such announcements fairly, not for just a single 3rd party, then this might be OK. So if you really want to move this forward I'd highly recommend creating and maintaining a German version of the porting page: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ -Rob > Regards > Michael > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
