OpenOffice was given to Apache 2 years ago. On 05/29/2014 08:02 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> But seriously, the warning on the site/code was good practice, however, >> they should have announced the discontinuation in advance, and offered >> to transition the project to a new team, if they no longer wanted to >> continue development. > No, I disagree, and not just for the sake of being disagreeable. I point > at Oracle's assumption of ownership of MySQL and OpenOffice as most > egregious examples of what can go wrong when a project is handed over to > a new team or new owners. At the very least there is a distinct lack of > trust towards Oracle over its stewardship of these two projects. Such a > lack of trust is a kiss of death for a security-related project like > TrueCrypt. No, this is a clear and absolute announcement that the > developers are burying TrueCrypt and moving on. This is the best case. > > The worst case? There's a flaw in the on-disk structures, a fundamental > weakness that can't be fixed with a software patch. Something like this > can ONLY be remedied by decrypting the entire volume and re-encrypting > it with something else. > > > As for what to replace it with? I don't know. TrueCrypt is unique. It's > the only free-ish, source-visible disk encryption tool that is portable > across Macintosh, Windows and Linux. Disk Cryptor is GPL but is > Windows-only. FreeOTFE is open source, Windows and sort-of Linux but is > no longer maintained and no Macintosh. > > There are a number of cross-platform commercial tools. They're all > expensive. Few support dual- and multi-boot systems. Most require Active > Directory infrastructure. >
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