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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