On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote:
> > > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > > > * GoOo: The fork that wasn't. > > Oh, that was a fork! A fork against OpenOffice. > In fact Go-OO was started by Ximian in 2003, long before Novell bought them, as a convenient build system for developers not working within Sun. The difficulty of getting the Sun team to accept patches, and the complexity of the Sun build system, meant that most developers external to Sun used Go-OO as their repository. There were indeed strong words spoken by many people (including me on Sun's behalf) but for the most part Go-OO maintained its role as a downstream convenience for non-Sun contributors and played a positive role developing a developer community around the code. I think we would all be well served by dropping the decade-old hostility to it at this point. S.
