On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 15:35 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > 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. > Not even close. Oracle removing the Sun board member to the OpenSolaris foundation and let it die. They drop low cost support packages for MySQL, which effectively raised prices from $600 to $2000 per year. And, Oracle reversed their position on licensing for Java, which forced Apache to leave OpenJDK project. These are the first big changes that come to mind. I won't moan about these. Oracle is free to make these kind of decisions. But, all of these changes are causing reactions among users of their software. The OO split was a small one. It was not really driven by the fee for plugins and it had been in the works for a while. Sun had been very slow in accepting outside patches and OO was stagnant.
> 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). -- 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
