This isn't a competition to be "won" or "lost". AOO and LO aren't really competing. AOO is for people who want an awesome office suite that's licensed under a permissive license. LO is for people who want the same under a copyleft license. Two different audiences, two different projects.
Personally I think it would be ideal if the two projects could/would freely share code, but due to the license conflict, AOO can't reuse code from LO unless the author(s) is/are willing to also license it under the ALv2. My understanding is that most LO contributors aren't willing to do so. OTOH, they can freely use contributions made to AOO, which is a slight advantage to them. All of that said, I wish people would just forget the bickering between the two projects, and try to find ways to work together cooperatively. Personally I don't give two shits about the history of LO/AOO, the fork, any controversy involving Sun, Oracle, StarOffice, etc. I just want awesome F/OSS software. And as far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier. Phil This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think OpenOffice has the larger install base even if LO has much of the > Linux desktop distro installs. > AOO is still attracting developers and other project members. > There may be a finite audience for office suites, but it is a very large > audience. > > Wolf Halton > Mobile/Text 678-687-6104 > > -- > Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc. > > > On Aug 3, 2016, at 14:02, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > >> Regardless of why or how, > >> when it comes to development, it's clear that LO has won. > > > > LO is only a fork. OO is the original and will always be the original. > That's the fact. > > > >> What are your views on this? > > > > LO is the fork, not OpenOffice. > > > > We should never forget how members of TDF have members of Apache > OpenOffice attacked with words. We should never forget what lies were > spread about OpenOffice so that LO is better off. > > > > > > > > Gretings. > > Jörg > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > >
