On Wednesday 22 June 2011 06:54:36 Tiago Marques wrote:
I would have to agree with Ilya Chernykh. While I do understand the undertaking required to keep it, life has shown me, nothing worth while, is ever easy. Becoming dependant on outside office suites, which are now becoming fragmented (project fragmentation is FOSS's kryptonite) is unwise.
That is not an issue provided that they are open to integration patches, IMHO.
I still yet have to see at least one integration patch to Open Office by the Trinity team.
So far the upstream KDE3 integration has been working just fine with no changes. And patches will be submitted to LibreOffice as well, when they are necessary.
One always has the chance to fork that suite, integrate the patches and supply ir to whoever wants that.
Oh yes. This team is so huge that in can even fork Open Office.
And this is just plain silly. Of course we are not going to fork OpenOffice!
What was probably meant was that we can supply patches for OpenOffice/LibreOffice and build binaries ourselves if the main distros will not build it with TDE support included. That is a very different concept than a fork.
Tim