On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey Keith; > > I find your idea on how Apache OpenOffice is helping Microsoft "benefit" > somewhere between ridiculous and amusing! 65 million users are using > OpenOffice instead of MS-Office for whatever reason. I doubt MS is too > happy about it but TBH, people do opensource for reasons far more > interesting the pissing Microsoft. And don't expect that because > OpenOffice works on linux people will drop down Windows in favor of > some so-called freedom. > > Some self-analysis would be interesting here: do you have any insight on > how your idea about re-designing LibreOffice's UI with Python didn't > produce anything (so far?) and why they ended up copying AOO's > sidebar instead? > A facelift of the VCL toolkit. Watching what Qt/GTK are doing making it more html-CSS friendly as well as more event driven, would improve the overal look and feel of the suite. Some experiments with OpenGTL (GTK glext https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAvtaeWwmU ) I remember EuroOffice did wonderful things with Python in OpenOffice including some eye sugar on the menus and taskbars. (unfortunately I found no links) but options zoom in similar to the OSX taskbar. > > LibreOffice, you should understand, has problems differentiating from > OpenOffice and will likely continue to have them not because AOO > exists but rather because it has done no effort to differentiate itself > significantly (with visible features, for example). > > I don't blame them: the code is difficult and the AOO developers (IBM > for sure but some others like me had a piece in it too) are doing a great > job and it would be silly not to use it. The more code they take from us, > the more they waterdown their "weak" copyleft licensing and the more > difficult it is to differentiate though. I agree with you that under such > conditions their fork sort of makes little sense but perhaps you should > discuss this with the part that is least constructive here and not the ones > that are making the code available to everyone else. > > I, for one, would love to see more collaboration from the linux > distributions > but also more collaboration with companies like Corel or Microsoft. > > Pedro. > > ps. Unrelated but good news for the list: AOO 4.0 is now available on > FreeBSD. > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
