Re: a small summary.

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com>]

"Michael Hoennig (mi)" wrote:

> Hi Dietmar,
>
> > Sure, maybe there are some people using the OpenOffice API - but I cant
> > understand why we should change our way to develop software. I simply
> > don't want to do anything only because of some compatibility issues, or
> > because some other none technical reasons. This is the big disadvantage
> > of commercial software and I don't know why we should import that
> > problems for free software.
>
> <fiction>
> Think about the year 2002 - about 2 years after the merger of BONOBO and
> OpenOffice APIs.
>
> OpenOffice, now with with 10 million lines of code, relies on BONOBO,
> another 10 million lines of code will be on top of it - all using BONOBO
> APIs.
> </fiction>
>
> And now I quote you again:
>
> > I simply don't want to do anything
> > only because of some compatibility issues
>
> If your attitude were the one of the GNOME community, I would be damned
> stupid, if I would continue trying to make my vision of a unified API
> become true. I would sentence OpenOffice to death. I hope, most GNOME
> hackers care more about compatibility issues - I know, some do. Hard
> words, but true.

Everything has a price - so the question is if it is better to be compatible

or to to have a better solution from the technical view. IMHO merging the
projects means merging the best of both projects, as opposed to extract the
best of GNOME and merge it into OpenOffice.

- Dietmar