From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QXywe-0001we-1M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:04:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 960561C04C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D945F1C01E for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B08D2062C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:57:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=Z6uDgS4RTLKBLgrcvZFJiQQRLZI=; b=EJmZICi2j5tSuX+nqHyStF2nRjnDbiMcnZ+2qiUAunBsKIZ6WsYKhLGdILjRztM6VKBphW4DGSiUNbmI/VcoXLZm16R2g39vy8gMcM8rxZ8N0sPpM1IqlvaLCnd2K7PUcoQafuAlpH3hpuPoeOKG7/ICB9qIVxE/moqYD6iXQR4= X-Sasl-enc: Mzq36Uad8cabBEu6NSZsnQFbnc6aRGu2wetufbdNaO1U 1308416265 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (serv.binarywings.net [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C15C401D88 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DFCD902.9040109@binarywings.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:57:38 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110507 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] OOo donated by Oracle to Apache References: <201106181552.56489.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201106181552.56489.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig603D2469F9CEC5E060684240" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 76ec313e06032eb484cc8d74da280ad3 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig603D2469F9CEC5E060684240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 18.06.2011 16:52, schrieb Mick: > This may be of interest to some: >=20 > http://lwn.net/Articles/446093/ >=20 > Oracle is known for buying assimilating and killing most software that = it=20 > buys, so this is a bit of a surprise. Perhaps it gave up on the idea o= f=20 > 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 --------------enig603D2469F9CEC5E060684240 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk382QYACgkQqs4uOUlOuU80LwCdFR5S2WSYJXEEFsczwipWTRIP mt4AnRn1dTOXp/8mMCH9MT5Q7PV47nGd =INYb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig603D2469F9CEC5E060684240--