On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 2012-02-25 3:50 PM Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: >> >>> LibreOffice continues to take code from Apache OpenOffice but then releases >>> it under a different license so Apach OpenOffice can't use their their >>> code. Sounds like another pariah to me. >> Except that LO people are actually getting things done. The pariah in the >> story is Oracle (and Sun before that) who refused community control over the >> code as they had originally promised. > Apache OpenOffice is getting things done.
Apache has not released anything yet. Oracle has lied to the community. LO has done what Sun promised they would and what Oracle never did: create an independent foundation to manage development. > A pariah is one who takes the code from a project and does not contribute any > of its code back. That is LibreOffice. Well, LibreOffice is a fork. NeoOffice is a fork to. Forks do that. Because the original project is deemed not to work anymore. At the beginning, NeoOffice did what nobody else wanted to do: a Mac version of OOo, even Sun was not interested in that. As for LO, they were pissed at Oracle for not keeping their promises etc. Everything I see here is corporate mismanagement of a free software project. > Oracle donated the code and copyrights to Apache, which is an open source > community. It did so only when it saw that the TDF was getting way more traction that its own development team. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
