LibreOffice on Fedora

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 22:40:06 UTC 2011


On 01/27/2011 03:53 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I don´t think this is accurate. Two thirds of the former Sun
> developers continue working at Oracle, on OpenOffice.org. This is part
> of the "exodus towards LibreOffice" myth, that, given quoted figures,
> included only ~30 people. But it serves well the agenda of those
> wanting to villify Oracle.

The quoted figured are not 30.  It is more than 100.

> PS: Sun created a copyrighted version, StarOffice, for years, and I
> don´t remember anybody running around like chickens without heads.

Everything that is not under public domain is copyrighted including
pretty much all the open source software but open source licenses give
end users more liberal rights.  You probably mean proprietary version
there.

Rahul



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