Issue 126777

Summary:	Web site update for WHY -> "Office 2003 EOL"
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	Jan Høydahl <jan.asf>
Component:	Website general issues	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE	QA Contact:
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 (lowest)	CC:	oooforum, orcmid, pescetti
Version:	current
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Description Jan Høydahl 2016-01-07 10:40:19 UTC

The page http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_office2003-end-of-life.html is out of date as it says "Microsoft has announced that they are ending support of Office 2003 and Windows XP on April 8th, 2014"...

Since we do not manage to keep such time-sensitive information up to date, let's either rewrite it into a general "No more EOL" page discussing the general problem of needing to upgrade at EOL, or get rid of the page alltogether.

Now that Office 365 is getting more popular, perhaps it would be cool with a page showing the true accumulated cost of subscribing to Office365 over a period of, say, 5 years...?

Comment 1 oooforum (fr) 2016-01-08 14:52:26 UTC

(In reply to Jan Høydahl from comment #0)
> The page http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_office2003-end-of-life.html is
> out of date 
Yes but, this page can be accessed from http://www.openoffice.org/why/

> Now that Office 365 is getting more popular, perhaps it would be cool with a
> page showing the true accumulated cost of subscribing to Office365 over a
> period of, say, 5 years...?
Nice idea
You could write this page and attach it here.
Once done, we'll update on website.

Comment 2 orcmid 2016-01-08 15:41:11 UTC

This is an inappropriate procedure for staging contributions into Apache OpenOffice content.

The originators must manage to make the contribution themselves.  If it is substantial, a CLA may be requested.  Working second- and third-hand is not acceptable.  That applies to a couple of other recently-opened bugzilla issues also.

Project committers will ultimately determine the acceptability and form for incorporation of such contributions into project content.

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There is a policy issue about "Why?" in any case.  

The Apache Project is not an advocacy organization nor is it engaged in competitive activity.  Those are not in the spirit of the Apache Software Foundation's commitment to production of software as a freely available public good.   It is not the purpose of AOO or any Apache Project to disparage or assess the work or products of others.  The purpose of the project is to do good work and make it available to the public. 

To discuss this further, please comment on the dev@openoffice.apache.org list.  The bugzilla is not the place for this conversation, which is about a serious policy matter.

Comment 3 Andrea Pescetti 2016-01-09 23:06:21 UTC

Resolving, setting NOT_AN_ISSUE not to deny the issue but to remark that the current discussion is happening on the mailing list and not in this issue.