On 09/05/2010 02:44 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote: > But as it stands I believe it is disrespectful and foolish to cast > unwarranted suspicions on Oracle. Sun Microsystems has made tremendous > efforts in the development of OpenOffice.org, for which we should be > thankful. And if Oracle plans to continue these efforts, they should be > praised for that.
+1 It is likely that there are things about OOo, the OOo community as a resource, and even Free and Open Source Software development that are still completely new to the company. If there are departments there with questions their learning process can be facilitated by participating in the community. The kinds of questions they ask and any misperceptions can be useful to know and used in creating or polishing marketing material for other businesses. The demand has been huge, and growing. It's just a question of how. Some segments don't yet know where to turn to for help in the trade jargon they're familiar with. Suddenly changing to a business model that requires open and frequent communications will take some figuring out for a company that normally plays its cards close to its chest. That is even more for just a department or two, since they have to interact internally with the old model. That's the main liability I see currently and I see signs that Oracle might be working on resolving that. Still if they wanted to light a flare for all to see, then dropping the CDDL and relicensing as GPLv3 or, lesser, the LGPLv3 would do that. /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
