Gary, OpenOffice was able to hide behind Sun's legal team. It was never marketed in English speaking countries as heavily as, for example, Europe & Brasil. In Europe LibreOffice & OpenOffice are used by an estimated 20% of the market. In Brasil much higher apparently. In England less than 1%. In 10 years of working in various offices in England and talking to people from other offices i have heard 3 people mention OpenOffice. None of those 3 was in a good way.
Sun folded and Oracle didn't feel able to continue running OpenOffice against the might of MS. Heck, Oracle couldn't even compete against TDF, even with the head-start they had! Apache are trying to give OpenOffice a go but seem to be changing the licensing away from copyleft to their own, more restrictive, licensing. They appear to be co-operating with TDF rather than fighting it. LibreOffice does not have the luxury of a legal department and does not intend to remain small and irrelevant. If your vision of writing documentation is to continue writing only for small irrelevant organisations/products then LibreOffice is not really the right place for you. LibreOffice is likely to be seen as threatening a core income-stream of a massive organisation. Should we be prepared for our work to be able to stand firm or should we hope that LibreOffice remains small and unthreatening so that no-one bothers to attack? Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
