Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9906143F7 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 35025 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jul 2011 17:49:42 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 34989 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jul 2011 17:49:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 34981 invoked by uid 99); 7 Jul 2011 17:49:41 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:49:41 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-qy0-f182.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username damjan, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:49:41 +0000 Received: by qyk38 with SMTP id 38so847674qyk.6 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.66.25 with SMTP id l25mr826275qci.265.1310060980446; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.249.140 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:49:40 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: What is the advantage of the Apache OpenOffice.org Fork? From: Damjan Jovanovic To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:01 PM, theUser BL wrote: > > Hi! > What is the advantage of the Apache OpenOffice.org Fork? > So what is the advantage of your OpenOffice.org fork? What will Apache OOo do better then LibreOffice? Off the top of my head and AFAIK: * (At least) Apple's and Microsoft's app stores disallow copyleft licenses, so LibreOffice probably can't get into them, while OpenOffice.org can. * LibreOffice only had 1.3 million downloads in 6 months, compared to OpenOffice.org 3.x's 100 million downloads in 1 year. It seems like the project with the OpenOffice.org brand will win. * Some of the changes LibreOffice has made seem political rather than constructive, eg. removal of Java code and introduction of Python. * IBM is willling to work with OpenOffice.org but not LibreOffice. * OpenOffice.org has had a large number of people sign up already. > Greatings > theuserbl > > Damjan