(and MySQL too, and probably the same that would like for Oracle's investments in FOSS to end).
"LibreOffice, as you know, is now the defacto office suite of choice among Linux users and is rapidly gaining traction in the Windows world as well. " "OpenOffice is pretty much only a memory" http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/oracle-losing-its-mysql-grip-to-mariadb-130916110509.html Citebite archive: http://pages.citebite.com/l2e1g0y0r4kpb Apparently the original story has been pulled from FOSSFORCE.COM, but not before it was widely spread around... This is the same scenario as when Googles move from MySQL to MDB is mirrored everywhere, yet Mozilla's decision, on technical merits to move from MDB to MySQL 5.6 gets no mention whatsoever. https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372319624043716608 https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372099540624478208 Of course, truth is just a small peeble in the shoes of a good FUD campaign... doesnt stop them. Apache OpenOffice or MySQL: the tactics are the same, lie,lie, and lie again. Some of the lies stick and become common, widespread truths repeated without fact-checking. The rest is herd behaviour and copy-paste IT journalism. Case in point:http://tinyurl.com/muktware-liars vs reality http://tinyurl.com/lsvya6f Or: http://pages.citebite.com/c2u1y0m0q5vti vs:reality: https://twitter.com/myfear/status/380190532552884225 This isnt healthy. It needs to stop. In the wise words of Shuttleworth: http://pages.citebite.com/e7v0f3m9sder Is the Evil Empire of Redmondia behind this campaign to portray IBMers as inept (Rob Weir has mentioned some of the FUD coming from the ither side wrt Sidebar and IBMs contributions) and Oracle as evil, when both firms are investing a lot in FOSS development (in the case of Oracle, investing a lot in Linux kernel engineers, OpenJDK, Netbeans, Glassfish, releasing JavaFX 2.0 under a GPL license, Virtualbox, etc..) Or is someone else behind this persistent FUD? Some firm that perhaps wants its web services to replace everything else? Thinking aloud FC -- 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 Orwel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
