On 10/28/2010 9:53 AM, jonathon wrote:
Technically, the code in OOo is open source, but with Oracle as the sole
copyright owner. As such, there is nothing that the contributors can legally
do, to prevent Oracle from declaring OOo 4.0 to be closed
source, proprietary, and by the way you have to pay US$90 per license, with a
100 license minimum.
It seems to me that would result in massive defection to TDF
and LO by all users and most of the non-Oracle developers.
Would Oracle do that?
They certainly can legally do that, but more likely is a
model that Sun supported as StarOffice.
Such a move might done using the model that Cygnus Software
used for its clients before their acquisition by Red Hat.
The most recent updates (GPL) went to paid clients for whom
I assume requested and paid for the updates, and these were
released, still GPL, to the public at a significantly later
date.
--David
