On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:08 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 13 November 2013 20:28, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> This will be something to post after Steve merges the code intro the >> trunk, which I understand will be soon: >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_4_1_to >> >> Does anyone have anything else to add? A quote from an assistive >> technology vendor or accessibility expert would be good. >> > > Having learned from the experience with the sidebar, I think it would be > correct to add that we (of course) make these new features available to > other office packages. I for one still get a bit upset, thinking how the > sidebar was announced in other packages, before we released it. >
I think it is a good thing that other projects find our work useful and take the code to help their users as well. Hoarding is against the open source ethic. But this works both ways. So it is very sad that we never receive patches upstream. We all realize that the license permits this one-way taking of code. But we also all realize that kind of behavior is frowned upon in the larger open source community. Let me think of what I can say in the blog post without being combative. Regards, -Rob > but that just my way of thinking. > > rgds > jan I. > >> >> -Rob >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
