On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: > Am 21.06.2013 17:06, schrieb Rob Weir: >> 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. > > Treating equal things unequal isn't fair, but it's also unfair treating > unequal things equal. You have to make the decision, what's equal and > whd what's unequa and in what aspect. That's the sense of "suum cuique > tribuere".
My recollection of the discussion was. (1) Have a 3rd party page. (2) Each language may have their own 3rd party page. (3) Each language can have their own news feed. (4) Each news item may link to a 3rd party page. Conclusion. DE page can have news about PrOOo and point to a link on the 3rd party page. Do we all agree? Regards, Dave >> >>> 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. > > see above. > > IMO you like to treat uneqal things equal. > > Making a page presenting third party products makes sense. > > But it don't makes sense, presenting all third party products in the > news. And it makes IMO sense presenting the box there. > >> >> 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/ >> > > Doing one thing doesn't mean to drop another. > > Regards > Michael > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org