Re: Conditional Formatting in OOo Calc

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:48, Michael Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).

That philosophy where devs outside Sun/Oracle are 'contributors',
'enthusiasts' and 'users' doesn't sit well with people. They were
obviously second hand citizens and I completely understand feelings
that come with that. Sun cared a bit about the community but Oracle
doesn't care at all.
But tell me, who will pay the ex-Sun devs to work on the OO.o code
when the IBM-Sun/Oracle deal expires? Oracle certainly wont. I see the
OO.o as a kinda-open project that is mainly IBM's main devel branch of
Lotus. OTOH Libre is a more consumer oriented project that has
different goals (and a different audience).

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

But was it a default office suite? And it's not a fair comparison as
the codebase difference between Libre and OO.o is so much larger.

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