[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

[Jonathan Adams]

Apache didn't want OpenOffice originally according to press/blogs of
people in the know ... probably because Apache got bitten over the
whole Java thing.

There was, however, a contract with Sun to keep maintaining and
improving OpenOffice, which passed to Oracle, and after all the dev
team left and formed LibreOffice Oracle were left with a project that
they couldn't afford to keep up to date (as is seen in the lack of
development in comparison to LibreOffice ... 3.4 due out this week)

The big thing will be if rather than just giving the code, and control
of the code to Apache they give the name to Apache too ... this is the
only bit missing from LibreOffice, and the only bit worth having from
whats left of the original OpenOffice (yes the plugins on OOo are
good, but most have been transferred to LibreOffice).

According to the missive from LibreOffice; Apache are keen to talk to
the LibreOffice team, although where those talks lead is yet to be
decided, some people are wondering if Oracle are handing the name to
Apache so as not to lose face by giving it to LibreOffice directly,
and are wondering if that is the only reason that Apache changed it's
mind to "take on" the project.

Jon

PS. I'm not affiliated, I'm just interested.

On 2 June 2011 10:29, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:51 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>> Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> >  http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apa.html
>> >
>> > Of course the article is terrible and myopic since it assumes that the center of
>> > the universe is Linux, which of course is the stupidest thing one can say.
>> >
>> Unfortunately, in some ways, it is.  Like it or not :(
>
> Unfortunately.  For example, I'd really like to be using OI, OS, or
> whatever.  But reality is that Linux meets my needs on the desktop
> workstation front _much_ better. So after much patience and testing of
> oi-151b I've reluctantly had to admit that I need to go with Debian
> until OI has come along a bit further.  Server side 151 release may yet
> see some action though.
>
> In any case, w.r.t. oo.org going to Apache, might this be thinly veiled
> (and now relatively meaningless in real world since giving away oo.org
> is akin to nothing in light of superior libreoffice) peace offering
> following hostilities over other things?
>
>
>
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