[oi-dev] Apache OpenOffice retirement - all contributors fled to LibreOffice after Oracle Sun takeover Fwd: Broken components

[Lionel Cons]

On 9 September 2016 at 22:33, Aurélien Larcher
<aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Aurélien Larcher
> <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sigh. What should I say? Was this not the expected outcome? I could
>>> argue Oracle has to learn about managing communities, but I'd say no
>>> one there would listen. Or not?
>>>
>>> For Openindiana, is any one working on a LibreOffice replacement of OpenOffice?
>>
>> We started packaging its dependencies a while ago:
>>
>> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/LibreOffice
>>
>> but the SFE project then kindly set up a Hipster repository containing
>> LibreOffice late May 2016:
>>
>> http://sfe.opencsw.org/libreoffice-4.4.7.2
>
> It was earlier as I thought but the post date tricked me...

No, the problems in the Openoffice community are there since 2-3
years, not there is no "vice president for open source" at Oracle or
any one who steers against such long term developments.

As far as I can see (not speaking for CERN) Oracle has lots of bean
counters who do not see the long term value (in US$) in open source
development and only see this kind of development as kind of "promo"
or "advertising" - and not as real partnership (or scientific value).
See what happened to Opensolaris and other SUN assets, and how far
Oracle has burned down its own house in the meantime.

Lionel