On Nov 23, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Ashgrove wrote: > What a can of worms! I personally favor the NeoOffice offshoot, and > now I wonder what consequences Oracle's greed may have in its > development...
Here's what I mean by the Holy War theme...casting the issue moralistically as "Oracle's greed". This is nonsense. Oracle bought Sun because Sun was cheap enough to buy and Oracle needed more control over the underlying lifeblood of their main product, Java, plus Sun's hardware side provides an in-house instant solution for Oracle to sell turn-key high-performance systems. Open Office merely came along for the ride. Oracle charging for the Office ODF decoder may well be reversed in the future...business decisions are subject to change, and note this is the only big issue that Oracle has changed from Sun, beyond swapping out the logo. I can fully understand why the OO group split off from Oracle; I suspect they see it as well as I that Open Office is not a product Oracle would naturally support (as opposed to the other OSS projects MySQL and VirtualBox); a number of their developers are contractually constrained from working for Oracle, and a fully free OSS project is better able to guide it's own future (at, of course, the cost of the corporate sponsorship and development dollars). As for the continued development of Neo Office, well it is an OSS project. It will go on as the underlying code continues to be developed. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
