...collaborate and listen. LibreOffice has ~10 times the number of developers involved ( https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreo... [ohloh.net] ,
https://www.ohloh.net/p/openof... [ohloh.net] ), and it's a better project in every possible way. The only thing you have going for you is that name you inherited for Oracle. By carrying on with this project you're just continuing a fork that serves no purpose to the community. In fact it harms the community, because new-comers try AOO and think it's the best that the community can do, when LO has shown we can do so much better.
The only upside, is that LO can import your work and benefit from what little improvements your small team are able to produce.
By carrying on with this project you're just continuing a fork that serves no purpose to the community.
Actually, AOO 4.0 was the first one to have a sidebar (their answer to the ribbon?), and LO copied it later. Also, there are Apache developers committing a nontrivial amount of code to LO (one article I read said 400 of 3000 bugfixes in LO 4.1 were submitted by people with apache.org email addresses).
[my excuses for being redundant - please mod me down! - but I have to say this to this apologetic (?) parent:] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... [freedesktop.org] is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports. This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similar
Please Stop (Score:4, Interesting)
...collaborate and listen. LibreOffice has ~10 times the number of developers involved ( https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreo... [ohloh.net] , https://www.ohloh.net/p/openof... [ohloh.net] ), and it's a better project in every possible way. The only thing you have going for you is that name you inherited for Oracle. By carrying on with this project you're just continuing a fork that serves no purpose to the community. In fact it harms the community, because new-comers try AOO and think it's the best that the community can do, when LO has shown we can do so much better.
The only upside, is that LO can import your work and benefit from what little improvements your small team are able to produce.
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By carrying on with this project you're just continuing a fork that serves no purpose to the community.
Actually, AOO 4.0 was the first one to have a sidebar (their answer to the ribbon?), and LO copied it later. Also, there are Apache developers committing a nontrivial amount of code to LO (one article I read said 400 of 3000 bugfixes in LO 4.1 were submitted by people with apache.org email addresses).
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[my excuses for being redundant - please mod me down! - but I have to say this to this apologetic (?) parent:]
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... [freedesktop.org] is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports.
This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similar
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aside from the splash screen and icons I cant tell a damn bit of difference
so do you have anything other than nerd religion to back your claims up
btw open office isnt the fork numbnuts, its the source which others have forked