Re: Conditional Formatting in OOo Calc

On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:20, Tomislav wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 16:06, Mark Foster wrote:
> > ...
> > Btw your statement is misleading - OOo is not  'Deprecated'.
> > LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice but OOo appears to be active,
> > as an incubator project of the Apache Foundation.
>
> Well, it's not deprecated _yet_. Seems it's just a matter of time
> as most devs went with Libre. Very grand plans for the new project
> - android, ios and web versions ... we'll see.

I would disagree with you there. Most of the "Core" devs were paid by 
Sun before Oracle. Many of them stayed with Oracle during the 
libreoffice split (if any chose to become unemployed so they could 
contribute to libreoffice i would be extremely surprised). The ones 
that left OO.o for TDF were generally contributors to the website, 
documentation, languages and other peripheral projects. IBM has put 
it's weight behind the Apache incubator project (Rob Weir is very 
active there).

Ubuntu and most other Linux distros a;ready contained a fork of OO.o 
anyway, which is called Go-OO.

The myth that forks will mean the death of one or other project is not 
born out by experience in OSS history.

Having said that: for current community help the best place is the TDF 
mailing lists[1]. The Apache-OO.o project will have a significant 
period while organisation takes place before any real new development 
occurs. The old OO.o mailing lists[2] are still active, just, though 
deprecated. Apache has replaced the old users mailing list[3] for 
advice and good advice can also be obtained there.

> > Aside from that, OOo ships with my
> > Ubuntu distro (10.10).

That would be Go-OO if you look closely enough (Help - About ...).

[snip]
[1] http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
[2] http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html
[3] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html

-- 
Michael

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