On 1/2/13 6:59 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote: > LibreOffice is a true free libre open source software (FLOSS) whereas > Apache's project is not recognized to be a free software by the Free > Software Foundation.
Apache Software Foundation is definitely supporting free software, and is one of the oldets, largest and most estimated foundation in FLOSS. The Document Foundation is a user of the Apache Web Server. I would avoid writing that Apache is not free software in ANY of our documents or web pages (actually, I would veto such a statement, as it does not reflect our attitude vs ASF as a free software foundation, which is extremely positive). Actually, The Document Foundation development environment has been inspired by ASF "rules for revolutionaries", which you can find here: http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html. Apache OpenOffice is a very peculiar project inside the Apache Software Foundation, as is the only desktop software in a number of server side software. The problem at Apache OpenOffice is IBM with its attitude vs free software, which does not change with time. Apache OpenOffice is free software, althoug the presence of IBM behind the project - together with the permissive license - is scaring for volunteers (as it is demonstrated by history). In any case, I would not use the license as a differenciator between AOO and LibreOffice, because the license does not create a difference for the average user. I would just write that LibreOffice has a larger number of developers because the copyleft license has been instrumental for attracting more volunteer developers. And a larger number of developers translates into a better product (in the medium to long term). > LibreOffice has received the backing from several commercial partners such > as Red Hat, Canonical, Intel, Google, etc. OK -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
