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gatorguy76
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 Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: Beating a dead horse |
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I know this topic has a thread here but I can't find it so I will post again.
Is it possible that if OpenOffice 3.x is indeed a stable release for both PPC and Intel macs that NeoOffice and OO could merge the two projects/code? I have been using Neo for a couple of years now because of the dreaded x11 but I am experimenting with the native OO for my PPC and seem to like it but have encountered a random crash from time to time that keeps me from using it more. Would the two projects not benefit from tighter cooperation - merger?
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pluby
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: Re: Beating a dead horse |
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| gatorguy76 wrote: | | Is it possible that if OpenOffice 3.x is indeed a stable release for both PPC and Intel macs that NeoOffice and OO could merge the two projects/code? I have been using Neo for a couple of years now because of the dreaded x11 but I am experimenting with the native OO for my PPC and seem to like it but have encountered a random crash from time to time that keeps me from using it more. Would the two projects not benefit from tighter cooperation - merger? |
The blunt answer is no, we will never merge unless Sun Microsystems buys us out and replaces our existing annual donations. Why is merging remotely unlikely? There are two reasons:
1. NeoOffice donations are how I and narf make a living - Ed has a full time job, but narf and I work full time on NeoOffice and to do that, we need donations. Without donations, we have to get other jobs and we stop working on NeoOffice. Working for free for Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org project is not an option.
2. Sun does not want our code - Why else would they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to recreate a slower, less stable clone of our code? They could have approached us about licensing our code but instead they wanted their own implementation. The only logical reason that I can see for a large business like Sun Microsystems to "make their own" instead of licensing or outright buying our code is that they do not see any value in our code.
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shades
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| And just to add to the above two reasons, NeoOffice gets it right with Hebrew in an English document. OO.org 3.0.1 still has it messed up. It is totally useless for any kind of work like that. And for me, this is a necessity. |
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sardisson
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Choice and competition are good for users. In the short term/mirco case there'll always be occasions where something works in one product and not others and will bother users of other products, but in the long run, having one or more competing products makes them all better, and having a choice means when you do encounter an issue, you can look among competitors to see if there are any that don't have said issue.
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