Re: OO as GNOME software (topic change)

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:46:38PM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 	Handing out 'you are not part of GNOME' notices to people because
> they have not yet integrated fully into the community[1] is not a good
> plan. Also, whilst the foundation defines what GNOME is, distributors
> define what people get, which I would imagine will include Open Office at
> whatever level of integration into GNOME it has.
> 
> 	There are good technical reasons why OO does not use Gtk+, quite
> apart from the massive amount of code that would need to be changed.

     Handing out 'you are the official office suite for GNOME' notices
seems premature, and somewhat questionable.

     OO is a large project and once a stable release is made it will
probably make its way into most distributions.  There is no need to
brand it as 'part' of GNOME.  There are many projects that are
instrumental in providing a free software platform that are not, and
will not be an integral part of GNOME.  Lets let them do their work
without tossing around unrequested notices.  As OO's goals and
integration strategies are clarified we'll see what they'd like.

In the interim I'll work to ensure that Gnumeric continues to
outscale and outperform StarCalc :-)