Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jan 22, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: >> On 1/22/13 3:59 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: >>> There was talk in the Talk of splitting the article, giving AOO its >>> own page and putting the project, along with its drama recap, on its

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Saransh Sharma wrote: > Is there any difference in OOO and AOO > It was a product renaming. OpenOffice.org was the name used from 2000, when Sun initially made their StarOffice (acquired from StarDivision) product open source, until around December 2011 when we

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 1/22/13 3:59 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: >> There was talk in the Talk of splitting the article, giving AOO its >> own page and putting the project, along with its drama recap, on its >> own. Maybe rather than an OO page, there can be a H

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/22/13 3:59 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > There was talk in the Talk of splitting the article, giving AOO its > own page and putting the project, along with its drama recap, on its > own. Maybe rather than an OO page, there can be a History of OO page? I hope not because AOO is OOO and even if

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Saransh Sharma
Is there any difference in OOO and AOO On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > There was talk in the Talk of splitting the article, giving AOO its > own page and putting the project, along with its drama recap, on its > own. Maybe rather than an OO page, there can be a History

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-22 Thread Donald Whytock
There was talk in the Talk of splitting the article, giving AOO its own page and putting the project, along with its drama recap, on its own. Maybe rather than an OO page, there can be a History of OO page? Though if there isn't an OO page it might start a redirect war... Don On Mon, Jan 21, 20

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Don > Thanks > Inline... > > > Donald Whytock wrote: >> Wikipedia has a lot of policy documents that are typically used to >> object to an article or a piece thereof. This comes out largely as >> finger-pointing with a laser sight, but

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Don Thanks Inline... Donald Whytock wrote: > Wikipedia has a lot of policy documents that are typically used to > object to an article or a piece thereof. This comes out largely as > finger-pointing with a laser sight, but it lends legitimacy to an > argument. > > Regarding conflicts of interes

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > Wikipedia has a lot of policy documents that are typically used to > object to an article or a piece thereof. This comes out largely as > finger-pointing with a laser sight, but it lends legitimacy to an > argument. > > Regarding conflicts

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-21 Thread Donald Whytock
Wikipedia has a lot of policy documents that are typically used to object to an article or a piece thereof. This comes out largely as finger-pointing with a laser sight, but it lends legitimacy to an argument. Regarding conflicts of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plain_and_simp

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Rob Weir wrote: >> For what it is worth, I too am a Wikipedia editor. Many are, and it's >> > not anything to write home about as something special. But it does mean >> > that presenting a more truthful and honest account of Apache OpenOffice >> > is something we can do. >> > > > So what can you d

RE: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
put a flag on the play. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 19:24 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; lo...@apache.org Subject: Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays [ ..

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> wrote: >>> I started looking through this. There probably needs to be a flag, >>> because there are inappropriate sources and this is an opinion >>> piece in th

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > wrote: >> I started looking through this. There probably needs to be a flag, >> because there are inappropriate sources and this is an opinion >> piece in the ways Rob has noticed. Agreed. My thanks to you and Rob. How very

Re: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I started looking through this. There probably needs to be a flag, because > there are inappropriate sources and this is an opinion piece in the ways Rob > has noticed. > > While browsing, > > In the prelude, the Apache License is des

RE: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays

2013-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I started looking through this. There probably needs to be a flag, because there are inappropriate sources and this is an opinion piece in the ways Rob has noticed. While browsing, In the prelude, the Apache License is described as among the weak copyleft licenses. It is not, and weak copylef