Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, we don't need two project if Oracle is serious about having letting OO go. The people at LO are mostly former OO developers, so hopefully the projects could be unified.
FOSS is like archery, it's good to have all the wood behind the arrowhead.
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:10 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, we don't need two project if Oracle is serious about having letting OO go.
I keep up with Ars Tecnica, Slashdot etc. but have seen nothing about this. Some kind of reference would be useful.
poc
On 18/04/11 10:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I keep up with Ars Tecnica, Slashdot etc. but have seen nothing about this. Some kind of reference would be useful.
One article: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/254803,oracle-hangs-up-the-gloves-on-openoffic...
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, we don't need two
Or, perhaps it's now clear to Oracle that the need for OOo is over. We've heard these promises from Oracle before, frankly I think the Document Foundation is in a much better position to govern the project going forward, no-matter what Oracle does with OOo.
-c
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:10:06 -0400 Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, we don't need two project if Oracle is serious about having letting OO go. The people at LO are mostly former OO developers, so hopefully the projects could be unified.
Yes they probably will be - the remaining OO developers will join LO.
FOSS is like archery, it's good to have all the wood behind the arrowhead.
Only if the arrow is heading in the right direction.
Alan
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over,
There was never a "need" for LibreOffice. Only competing companies wishing to wrest control of the project away from Oracle, like Novell wanted to do for a long time to take control away from Sun. (Go-OO).
we don't need two project if Oracle is serious about having letting OO go.
Nothing of what I read indicates this. What Oracle cancelled is "Oracle Open Office" which was the new name given to StarOffice, the commercial build of OpenOffice.org with the addition of propietary plug-ins.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3275075/oracle-kills-off-co...
You know, the product that used to be described at http://sun.com/staroffice and which redirected to this Oracle.com page
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/open-office-17024...
(and which now is gone)
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:apyVejeWkZUJ:www.oracle...
The people at LO are mostly former OO developers, so hopefully the projects could be unified.
Sun told me they had 100 paid developers working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. At the time of the much-hyped "exodus" of OpenOffice.org developers to "Libre" Office, the number of developers "leaving" was quoted at around 30. So that means the "exodus" was only one-third of the programming workforce, with 2/3 still employed by Oracle.
Will Oracle lay off its 60 OpenOffice.org developers and cancel the OpenOffice.org project? nothing of what I read indicates that, just that they cancelled "Oracle Open Office", the commercial product (StarOffice).
It´s the dumb ass reporting which confuses "Oracle Open Office" with OpenOffice.org ...
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