On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:33:02 -0300 Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "After LibreOffice came out, Oracle released one version of Oracle Open > Office before deciding that the project wasn’t worth the effort > <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project/>. > It laid off the programmers and gave the code and trademarks to the Apache > Software Foundation, under Apache’s liberal open source license." > > That's one version of events. Another version of events is this. > http://pages.citebite.com/e7v0f3m9sder > > "Shuttleworth has a fairly serious disagreement with how the > OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice split came about. He said that Sun made a $100 > million "gift" to the community when it opened up the OpenOffice code. But > a "radical faction" made the lives of the OpenOffice developers "hell" by > refusing to contribute code under the Sun agreement. That eventually led to > the split, but furthermore led Oracle to finally decide to stop OpenOffice > development and lay off 100 employees." > > That's different from "deciding it was not worth the effort". > > Why the FUD on a dev list, anyway? The posting was for information; if it contains inaccuracies, that is a different thing to posing direct FUD to the list. A messenger is not responsible for the content of the message he bears. "Don't kill the messenger!" Rory O'Farrell > FC > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Tony Stevenson <t...@pc-tony.com> wrote: > > > > > This is an interesting read: > > > > > > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office?CMP=twt_a-technology_b-gdntech > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > -- > > Tony > > > > > > -- > During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary > act > Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto > Revolucionario > - George Orwell -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
