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[Timothy Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

For those not aware.  The OpenOffice project has been forked to LibreOffice.
It seems to be completely justified to me based on the new owner (Oracle)
requiring a copyright assignment.  This is one of the main reasons that
MLHIM exists as well.

Therefore, unless there is some huge compelling reason not to do so.  I
suggest that we now use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.

Some of the justification is recorded here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

Regards,
Tim

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As you  all may be aware.  We selected the LyX Document Processor  and
> its LaTex format for all of our documentation needs.   However, given
> all of the positive things going for LyX; popularity is not one of
> them.  Creating and maintaining the massive amounts of documents the
> MLHIM project requires is an effort that should be shared among many
> people.
>
> Therefore we should use something that is more popular and familiar and
> work around the issues that may arise from it.   It is my opinion that
> "it" is OpenOffice.org Writer.  I brought it up in a meeting with a few
> of the other MLHIM Owners today and they were in agreement with me.
>
> If anyone has other ideas or just a disagreement with this decision then
> please speak up.  Otherwise I will move forward converting the LyX
> documents to OOo docs.
>
> I will also ask for help in creating a good template for MLHIM
> documents.  Someone with some experience in this area would be nice (I
> am really bad at it).  Maybe start with ISO standards templates, IETF,
> CEN, ANSI ?  and make them a MLHIM Specifications template.
>
> I prefer that you reply on the mailing list but if you can help and only
> want to reply to me that is fine too.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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