McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
Twayne [mailto:[email protected]] replied:
In news:[email protected],
Karthikeyan Krishnamurthi <[email protected]> typed:
Hi all
i am newbie to the mailing list i want to know is
there any licensing issues to provide openoffice as a cloud
service.....
and also i want to know is it possible to provide
openoffice from the local server to all the nodes connected
with the lan.. [like google-docs which support throught
the internet]
will anyone please help me in this regard....
If you mean an actual "cloud" as in OO.o will live on it, I'm
not aware of
anything in the EULA that prevents it at least. Personally
I'd rather have
it on my own computer since it's free than on a cloud service.
For those who are not aware:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
is a good starting point.
I can see it being of some use for thin/small
devices or for people who access it from a variety
of locations and "terminals". The company might
just want to provide an alternative to Google
and other existing providers of WP-as-a-service.
They would need either to modify OOo or to insert
a layer to handle the serving, and possibly a
layer in the other direction to handle the cloud-like
aspects of a customer's file storage from multiple
instances of OOo.
In that case, would the operators of the service be
required to make the source code of their "secret
sauce" (bridging, glue, etc.) available to all.
That could present a competitive disadvantage.
On the other hand, if they are not considered to be
actually distributing copies of their modified OOo
(they're just distributing an interface that accepts
customer inputs (cursor position, keypresses, clicks)
and that shows a nicely-coincident view of what OOo
is doing with their document), then the problem
doesn't arise. Somebody needs a lawyer.
I can also see the clouding of OOo raising some
interesting challenges for OOo experts in this
list when they provide answers to queries.
- Kevin IANAL
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Hi All,
Just a little FIY, there are online providers already providing
OpenOffice.org as an online service on a cloud.
Andy
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