Got a couple of questions. (1) I heard that OpenOffice is restricted from re-using code from LibreOffice because Oracle insists on broader licenses than LO developers are willing to give, but the reverse is not true. So, from this aspect LO can only get stronger while OOo stagnates. Is this accurate?
(2) According to what I've read so far, most of the work to create and maintain OpenOffice was done by a team of developers originally working for StarOffice, later bought by Sun, in turn bought by Oracle. Outside volunteers working without pay contributed only a small portion of the code. Other companies, notably Novell, are said to be stepping in for LO. Will they dedicate comparable resources to maintaining and expanding LO as StarOffice/Sun/Oracle did for OO? If not, will volunteers (enthusiastic about being free of Oracle) be picking up the slack for LO, or is it too early to tell? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Two-questions-about-course-of-LO-tp2757230p2757230.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted*
