Andy Brown wrote:
I seem to be really missing something in all this talk about the
transfer of OOo.
1: What would TDF do with the code? At this point in time LibO is way
ahead of OOo in features and code clean up, from the patches flying in
the dev list.
2: What would TDF do with the OpenOffice.org name and trademarks?
3: Would they rename LibreOffice to OpenOffice.org? If so why, since
LibreOffice has spread like it has?
4: Why is TDF trying so hard to block the proposal with ASF? I guess
answers to the above will answer this one.
Thanks
Andy
I have been reading the discussion the last 3 days concerning Oracle
donating the code and from what I understand the brand name. From what
I understand the differences in licenses between The Document Foundation
and Apache Software Foundation are such that code in OpenOffice can be
used in LibreOffice, but code in LibreOffice can not be used in
OpenOffice.
From what I have read it seems like it will be some time before
anything much comes of whatever happens at the Apache Software
Foundation, at least as far as any product for end users. If this means
that OOo will stagnate as far as improvements and new releases is
concerned, and it seems like it will, then I suspect that most people
will switch to LibreOffice and OpenOffice will become irrelevant.
I might be wrong about this, but from all the good progress at TDF and
LO it seems like OpenOffice may become irrelevant if it hasn't already,
at least as far as end users are concerned. I have heard a lot of
concern about duplication of efforts, but if I had to guess as to what
will happen, I suspect that most volunteer developers/programmers will
donate their efforts to TDF and LO rather than OO, or to both. I
suspect that at some point within the next year the two software suites
will diverge to the point where they can no longer share new code, and
LO will need many of its own templates and extensions rather than being
able to use those that were written for OO.
Perhaps the single largest reason that Oracle didn't offer the code and
brand to TDF was simple hurt feelings. Whatever, in the long run I
suspect that it simply doesn't and won't matter. If anything I think
that this will cause TDF to gain more developers and supporters and to
prosper.
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