On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 09/03/2015 08:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> "After LibreOffice came out, Oracle released one version of Oracle Open >> Office before deciding that the project wasn’t worth the effort >> >> <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project/>. >> It laid off the programmers and gave the code and trademarks to the Apache >> Software Foundation, under Apache’s liberal open source license." >> >> That's one version of events. Another version of events is this. >> http://pages.citebite.com/e7v0f3m9sder >> >> "Shuttleworth has a fairly serious disagreement with how the >> OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice split came about. He said that Sun made a $100 >> million "gift" to the community when it opened up the OpenOffice code. But >> a "radical faction" made the lives of the OpenOffice developers "hell" by >> refusing to contribute code under the Sun agreement. That eventually led >> to >> the split, but furthermore led Oracle to finally decide to stop OpenOffice >> development and lay off 100 employees." >> >> That's different from "deciding it was not worth the effort". >> >> Why the FUD on a dev list, anyway? > > > It's not FUD. It's a link to an article. > > What would be awesome is if someone would write a counterpoint, which is > non-confrontational, non-rageful, non-hateful, and non-reactionary, but just > calmly presenting the reasons why someone might want to stay on OpenOffice. >
We did a survey on this question back in 2013. The question was: "You have a choice of several open source office suites. Why do you use OpenOffice rather than alternatives like LibreOffice or KOffice?" The results were: Features (47%) Quality (22%) Compatibility/Interoperability (22%) Reputation/Familiarity (9%) Regards, -Rob > Refuting the article on this list, where we all already know the story, is a > good start, but if you could turn it into an article that's less political, > more practical (features, community, timelines, and so on), that would > actually help our cause. The person asking the original question doesn't > care about politics, hurt feelings, and "radical factions", I guarantee. > They want to know which product is better for them, now, and in the long > term. > > Thanks. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
