On 2012-02-25 5:03 PM Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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.
True, but the first release candidate should be quite soon.
Oracle has lied to the community.
Sources please. You need documentation to back up your supposition.
LO has done what Sun promised they would and what Oracle never did: create an
independent foundation to manage development.
Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to Apache. LibreOffice is just taking the code and contributing
nothing back to the greater community.
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.
Apache OpenOffice is working, despite your conjecture.
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.
And NeoOffice contributes nothing back to OOo. And now we have LO with corporations such as
Novell providing a large proportion of the development in order to further their corporate
interests.
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.
More speculation on your part. Are you a politician?
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