> -----Original Message----- > From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 5:13 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute! > > Am 20.01.2017 um 12:38 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > > > > > >> I think LibreOffice are to a certain degree correct. The > ASF is not > >> capable to do the Project Open Office at this Point. The > structure of > >> Libre Office is a much more healthy one for the kind of Project > >> Libre/Open Office is. > > > > Yes, unfortunately, the relevant criticism of LO is correct. > > > Ok, I have another opinion. Today LO looks very well. > > But there are only 2 or 3 companies paying for most of the > professionell > developers. That they do so, is fine and I really hope they do so in > future. And 3 companies are better than one. > > But we have seen large companies searching for a business model for a > free office suite. SUN, Oracle, Suse (Novell), IBM and > others. Did they > found one? > > So LO only can hope, that the supporting companies will ever > find paying > developers as enough profitable or promising. The TDF is not > able to pay > developers for longer periods.
I do not think your opinion is _so_ different, because _I share your opinion_. What you describe is exactly my criticism of the TDF and substantial reason that I am not a member of the TDF, because the TDF is not the kind foundation which the OpenOffice.org community once wanted, but a foundation in the interests of companies. I also see this because I see the many who have done important parts of the work in the last few years, where TDF is only in the second row and others have pushed themselves to the fore. Greetings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
