Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Posted Aug 20, 2015 4:14 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team by jimjag
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Not sure why you are submitting that link as counter-evidence.

I once had coffee with Louis and explained to him that for OpenOffice to gain vitality as a community project, it had to be separated from Sun. History has proven that was so. But on that day, Louis explained that he would never help with such a thing, because it would end his employment.

So, you seem to have shown me an internal conversation in which someone whose first interest wasn't the community expressed hope that the community would be part of the picture. Well, that was hopeful, but the AOO side well and truly botched the relationship from day one.