On Thursday 04 Nov 2010, Justin Stringfellow wrote: > > Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's > > been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody > > knows about that? > > See: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle
See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/02/openoffice_org_letter/ Oracle have really uset the FLOSS community, not just with their dealings with OpenOffice, but also with the way they are alienating the community over Java. I think they will either have to rethink their FLOSS strategy or risk losing market share significantly as all their products that rely on FLOSS end up being forked. When a company makes money from FLOSS, it's a fine line they have to tread between 'monetizing' (horrible Americanism) the code and keeping the community on board. Red Hat, Google, Novell, IBM all walk this line with varying degrees of success. Sun were close to the line with many things, but the consensus seems to be that Oracle has taken a running leap over it. Returning to the original question, Canonical and others have already declared support for LibreOffice. The current plan is that the default Office Suite in Ubuntu will be LibreOffice from now on http://tweetmeme.com/story/2523593742/future-ubuntu-releases-will-be-shipped- with-libreoffice-says-mark-shuttleworth-tech-drive-in I think we are living in interesting times :-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
