Go-OO.org?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 10:28:32 UTC 2008


2008/12/31 Andrew Sayers <andrew-ubuntu-devel at pileofstuff.org>:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for this - it's good to have some definitive information :)
>
> Do you know why Sun asked for their branding on a product with a
> different feature set to their own?  It seems to me like this would
> cause confusion (as evidenced by this thread), and would give some
> measure of support to patches that Sun don't want in their tree.
>
>        - Andrew
>

This is not official, but from what I gather Sun (unlike Mozilla)
wants to be associated with improved versions of their product. Sun
cannot emply the patches themselves as that would compromise their
Star Office suit (not GPL) however having a strong OOo is beneficial
to Sun.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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