> > Not to mention more detail on a much earlier
> > departure:
> >
> >
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-
>
> > Creator-James-Gosling-Why-I-Quit-Oracle-813517/
> >
> > Keeping in mind that one tends to only hear one
> side
> > at a time, nevertheless,
> > it doesn't sound like Oracle wants creative people
> > unless they're good
> > cogs in the impersonal corporate machine.
> >
> > I just don't see how that approach is supposed to
> be
> > sensible or sustainable...
>
> that is bad...Oracle low balling devs and cutting
> projects off a the knees.
> well... I think it was a great idea then for
> OpenOffice.org devs to split from oracle and create a
> fork called libreoffice. bad news is it does not run
> on solaris, but ill be happy once there is a gentoo
> ebuild of libreoffice and Openindiana adds it to
> their IPS repo:-)
>
>
>
>
> * OpenOffice.org Leaves Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice
> ttp://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2369885,00.a
> sp
LibreOffice ("Free Office") is, at least at the present time, pretty much a
re-branding of Novell's Go-Office.org. Since most of Linux distros, including
the big three--Ubuntu, Fedora, and Novell's SuSE, are already using the GO.o
version (i.e., patches) of OpenOffice.org, the transition, if at all, should be
much smoother than what might have otherwise been expected from a major
"forking".
(Those who are not interested in whining should stop here; the following
discussion has nothing to do with OpenSolaris.)
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the update 9 of Solaris 10 has
finally switched to OpenOffice.org. Thus, it seems that Oracle also silently
RIP'd StarOffice (actually the decision was already made during Sun's time).
While StarOffice has a stronger appeal among "potential" corporate users, the
cost to maintain two different brandings simply outweighs its (again,
"potential") revenues. Only the old Sun had the tenacity to maintain two
(actually three) relatively complicated office suites while with no possible
revenue in sight.
For trans-Pacific users like myself, use of StarOffice also presents a very
difficult problem. Unlike OpenOffice.org, which allows its UIs to be changed
on the fly according to the selected locale, StarOffice--at least its Solaris
version--does not allow its UI to be in Chinese or Japanese. To do that, the
user must uninstall StarOffice and install the Chinese (there are two versions
of Chinese) or the Japanese version of "StarSuite". Then, after you have
installed a particular language version (say simplified Chinese), there is no
easy way to switch to other language versions short of another
uninstall-and-reinstall.
There are a bunch of other much more horrible war stories about the
Solaris/OpenSolaris version of OpenOffice.org, but I don't think anyone here is
interested. Thus I will stop for now. But my point is, since the primary goal
of LibreOffice is to help distribution builders to build their own packages,
instead of the old mentality of trying to manage a product that Sun had hoped
to eventually be able to sell (but had no infrastructure of selling it), the
development of LibreOffice should be a good news for Solaris users. (Until
fairly recently, I was not able to install OpenOffice.org development packages
on OpenSolaris--it turned out the install script depends on Java, and the
integration of Java in OpenSolaris was not updated with each nv update).
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