On 7/8/2011 5:49 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
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 :)
Sounds more like a pep talk than anything...
Gary
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