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Subject: RE: OpenOffice & LibreOffice
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:42:59 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Curtis [mailto:keithcu@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 6 June 2011 7:32 AM
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice & LibreOffice
>=20
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schaefer@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Your input on apache.org lists hasn't impressed anyone with your
> > general aptitude or social skill level.  By all means, if you insist
> > on making more juvenile remarks we will be delighted to serve them =
up
> > to the public for as long as the org exists.
>=20
> I don't represent LibreOffice so I don't have to be polite. I'm just =
going to
> make a few words and then leave and work on my own tasks. I'm a writer
> hawking books, so if you quote me, please link to my book.
>=20
> I wish the Apache org was more useful to me than just providing my =
HTTP
> server.

It provides over 150 other projects, all of them are useless to you ?
You are slating all these projects and all the committers that work on =
them
because a choice was made externally to the ASF that you personally do
not like?

>=20
> I try to be polite / constructive, you should see what I delete. I =
want people
> to work together in the same codebases. Things go faster that way. =
Forking is
> expensive and damaging social engineering.

You see, I've seen you and others mention forking is bad, blah blah, yet =
LibreOffice
IS A FORK of OpenOffice. What a contradictory statement. What a huge =
one.

> LibreOffice is a great organization with great people and you would be =
foolish
> to not work with them and leverage what they've done.

Has anyone here said they would not welcome folks from LibreOffice to =
come and help?

> I'll work on quitting
> being juvenile if you work on quitting ignoring facts.

You are ignoring the fact that LibreOffice is a fork and yet you say =
forks are damaging.
Git loves forking, LibreOffice uses Git.


yep

Gav...

>=20
> -Keith
>=20
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