<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Basil Chupin <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div class="im"> On 29/09/2010 03:55, Nathan Bahn wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:24 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And Canonical/Ubuntu/Shuttleworth is on board: <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html" target="_blank">http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html</a> <quote> Mark Shuttleworth, founder and major shareholder of Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, has declared: "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu. The Document Foundation's stewardship of LibreOffice provides Ubuntu developers an effective forum for collaboration around the code that makes Ubuntu an effective solution for the desktop in office environments". </quote> -- sounder mailing list <a href="mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">sounder@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder</a> </blockquote> </div> NoOp-- Is this any indication of distrust Larry Ellison & Co.? --N.B. </blockquote> </div> Make up your own mind..... <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/openofficeorg-developers-break-ties-oracle-985" target="_blank">http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/openofficeorg-developers-break-ties-oracle-985</a> BC <pre cols="72">-- Sound that shatters silence is called noise. Sound that enhances silence is called music. Chinese proverb </pre> </div> -- sounder mailing list <a href="mailto:sounder@lists.ubuntu.com">sounder@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder</a> </blockquote></div> It looks like Ellison & Co. will become the new Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer if they're not careful..... <img goomoji="329" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:329@goomoji.gmail"> So should I amend my "signature" to have a link to LibreOffice? Is my current link obsolete!?<img goomoji="B05" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:B05@goomoji.gmail"> <img goomoji="341" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:341@goomoji.gmail"> --N.B.<img goomoji="1E3" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:1E3@goomoji.gmail"> -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>