I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

Chris Smart mail at christophersmart.com
Fri Nov 5 23:12:47 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:>
> It seems to me that if Oracle was serious in investing in free software,
> four years would've been plenty of time for Oracle to show how much
> development effort they are willing to put forth, and for their product to
> evolve into a competitive brand.

Indeed, and just look at what they did with OpenSolaris. Dead. Look at
what they're doing with Java - suing free software makers over
patents. Look at the dramas with MySQL, and now they've tripled the
cost of the base support license (PostgreSQL anyone?). Look at what
they've done with the formerly free OpenOffice.org plugin for MS
Office - no longer free.

Now, what are they gonna do with OpenOffice.org going forward?
Whatever they think is in their best corporate interests of course,
but rest assured they are not a "free software company" like Red Hat.

Developers were right to leave OpenOffice.org and create a new project
which is governed by a community, not a corporation. I trust a
non-profit more than I do a corporation to have the best interests at
heart for a free software project.

-c


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