Proposed F19 Feature: Apache OpenOffice

[Kevin Kofler]

James Hogarth wrote:
> Right now there's no roadmap for 4.0 - no milestone dates, alpha dates or
> beta dates... The best that exists for this is a nightly snapshot from
> trunk covered in caveats about how unstable it's likely to be.
> 
> The openoffice.org wiki doesn't even mention 3.4 much less future plans
> for 4.0 on it's features page!
> 
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Features
> 
> Could you have a chat with Rob Weir to clarify IBM's timeline for the 4.0
> package and provide some hard milestone dates rather than the current
> vague "April 2013" ?
> 
> Annoyingly the AOO thread has split in my email client by I agree the
> discussion about the IBM Symphony dump ( licensing concerns as out of
> scope given that won't be packaged and all code will be review for license
> whilst being merged to AOO however this inject of proprietary code as
> opposed to the open tested code of 3.4.1 on a tight timeline is I would
> submit a concern as to the likelihood of bugs and slippage from the
> current vague date.

AOO really seems to have degenerated into IBM's private playground. (No 
wonder, they're the only ones who benefit from the braindead non-copyleft 
licensing.)

        Kevin Kofler