On Sun 06 Mar 2011 14:51:32 NZDT +1300, Carl Turney wrote: > > How does LibreOffice compare? > > I never even heard of it until your email. Just Wikipedia-ed it now. > An interesting and "juicy" story. Just because Oracle may pull out of > sponsorship doesn't mean they can also kill off the OpenOffice name, > program and/or movement too, can they?
Yes they can. As owners they can kill off any trademarks they own. The only thing they can't do is make it closed source. They can fork it though, with Billy rubbing his hands. > But I will personally not be switching over to > LibreOffice based on the current situation alone... Good luck. > If Libre is a much > smaller effort, and if Oracle continues its sponsorship (or at least > detaches itself honourably) What planet are you on? LibreOffice exists because that is the last thing Oracle will be doing. > then Open Office could still have the > momentum and resources to provide the best suite -- as far as I can tell. The only paid programmers working on OO are Oracle's. Everyone else is working on LO, and all distros have switched to LO because they can't be bothered putting up with Larry Ellison behaving pretty much like SCO. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
