Comments on: Why Would Novell Want to Fork OOO? http://techrights.org/2007/10/09/why-would-novell-want-to-fork-ooo/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2007/10/09/why-would-novell-want-to-fork-ooo/comment-page-1/#comment-2315 Shane Coyle Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:30:05 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/09/why-would-novell-want-to-fork-ooo/#comment-2315 Hadn't seen it yesterday, but there are alot of qualifying words peppered throughout all of Meeks' statements - 'as of now', 'actively', and even 'native' and 'to match'. Top that off with <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/119689" rel="nofollow">this</a> (emphasis mine): <blockquote cite="http://www.linux.com/feature/119689"> In other words, Meeks' comments seem less a declaration of independence than a renewal of longstanding internal disputes within the OpenOffice.org community. Asked by Linux.com whether recent events constituted a fork, Meeks replied firmly, "Novell is not forking OpenOffice. It's that simply. We're working closely with OpenOffice; I spent most of the day working on code that will go into the general OpenOffice. <strong>If it's a fork, then we're working on both sides of the fork</strong>. The punchline is that we're still heavily invested in OpenOffice, we're still working with Sun, and there's still projects on which we're working jointly with Sun." </blockquote> So, we're not forking, unless of course we are. Where is Novell's official statement? Hadn’t seen it yesterday, but there are alot of qualifying words peppered throughout all of Meeks’ statements – ‘as of now’, ‘actively’, and even ‘native’ and ‘to match’. Top that off with this (emphasis mine):

In other words, Meeks’ comments seem less a declaration of independence than a renewal of longstanding internal disputes within the OpenOffice.org community. Asked by Linux.com whether recent events constituted a fork, Meeks replied firmly, “Novell is not forking OpenOffice. It’s that simply. We’re working closely with OpenOffice; I spent most of the day working on code that will go into the general OpenOffice. If it’s a fork, then we’re working on both sides of the fork. The punchline is that we’re still heavily invested in OpenOffice, we’re still working with Sun, and there’s still projects on which we’re working jointly with Sun.”

So, we’re not forking, unless of course we are. Where is Novell’s official statement?

]]> By: David http://techrights.org/2007/10/09/why-would-novell-want-to-fork-ooo/comment-page-1/#comment-2314 David Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:01:38 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/09/why-would-novell-want-to-fork-ooo/#comment-2314 Here is Michael Meeks' response to this which he posted yesterday which you didn't link to (perhaps you haven't read it?): http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2007-10-09 "Categorically, as of now, this is false; we're not actively working on native export filters to match the import filter. " I'm confused about this this, as I've tried the Novell edition of OO.o, and you can save documents as .docx. Here is Michael Meeks’ response to this which he posted yesterday which you didn’t link to (perhaps you haven’t read it?):

http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2007-10-09

“Categorically, as of now, this is false; we’re not actively working on native export filters to match the import filter. ”

I’m confused about this this, as I’ve tried the Novell edition of OO.o, and you can save documents as .docx.

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