[gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache

[gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache

[Mick]

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This may be of interest to some:

http://lwn.net/Articles/446093/

Oracle is known for buying assimilating and killing most software that it 
buys, so this is a bit of a surprise.  Perhaps it gave up on the idea of 
competing against Microsoft on the Office suite market space.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 18.06.2011 16:52, schrieb Mick:
> This may be of interest to some:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/446093/
> 
> Oracle is known for buying assimilating and killing most software that it 
> buys, so this is a bit of a surprise.  Perhaps it gave up on the idea of 
> competing against Microsoft on the Office suite market space.

Unfortunately, it will most likely not stop the forked development. I
recommend the older Ars Technica article on this [1]. To sum it up:

1. Most LibreOffice-supporters with the exception of IBM want to stick
with The Document Foundation and LibreOffice.

2. The more permissive Apache license could prove detrimental because it
doesn't mandate publishing your proprietary changes (Libre- and OOo are
under LGPL). OOo could end up being the lowest common denominator
between a range of commercial forks (IBM Lotus Symphony, Oracle Open
Office, etc.) and LibreOffice.

[1]
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/06/oracle-spurns-libreoffice-wants-to-give-ooo-to-apache-foundation.ars

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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