-- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On May 13, 2020, 10:48 AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]>, wrote: > > At the time IBM really wanted to continue developing its own fork of > OpenOffice and for that they did not want OpenOffice to continue with > the LibreOffice fork, that already existed (and had a license that would > prevent them from making a priprietary fork). > > That is the most probably cause for Oracle to move OpenOffice to Apache. > Stallman wasn't really involved with LibreOffice at the time. > > You are guessing, sorry. While Ellison did not reveal his decision process, > he is very pro Israel. > > Stallman wasnt involved because the FSF did not have control of OO and it was > not covered by the GPL. Was the FSF interested in taking it over, no one has > ever said officially, but there was plenty of people asking for it and > speculation that it was going to happen. > > As for proprietary forks, the owners of Asterisk did exactly that. They sold > a proprietary license to IBM for $10 million, screwing the people who > contributed most of the code who did so because it was GPL. > > As for Linux Mint, you are welcome to "forgive and forget", I am not. > > Geoff
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