Re: OO disappears, forcing people to Libre & then reemerges as Apache...

2021-10-10 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - > On Oct 10, 2021, at 9:18 AM, joseph dingler > wrote: > > Hello All, > > Not sure I want to drown in all the drama/politics over at Oracle and how you > acquired OO; Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation over ten years ago. As far as I know no one in the com

Re: OO disappears, forcing people to Libre & then reemerges as Apache...

2021-10-10 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I'm not going to attempt to address the licensing issues that you bring up, but let me mention something about versioning. Version numbers are rather arbitrary, and if you want to know if something is far behind or not, instead, look at the feature set of the two versions. Don't just assume tha

OO disappears, forcing people to Libre & then reemerges as Apache...

2021-10-10 Thread joseph dingler
Hello All,  Not sure I want to drown in all the drama/politics over at Oracle and how you acquired OO; but I would assume that you have a non-compete or other arrangement prohibiting you from 'giving-away' solaris or BSD compatible/ported OO?? I have 2 main questions that I'm needing of you?