[OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

[Richard L. Hamilton]

On Jun 2, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Ken Gunderson 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.

To each their own...whatever.  I only run Solaris (SPARC) and OS X (Intel) native at home (save for an occasional BootCamp boot into an XP partition on the Mac); all else under VirtualBox.

> 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?

The one thing that bothers me about LibreOffice is I don't see a
Solaris download, only Linux (too many flavors), Windows, and OS X.

OpenOffice.org has a Solaris download.  And there's even been some effort to get it going on some of the *BSDs.  But over on LibreOffice, I get the distinct impression that they do Linux 'cause they want to, and Windows and OS X because they have to, and don't do others 'cause
they don't have to.

Far as I'm concerned, the arrogance of a lot of true believers isn't much better than the shortsighted money and control freaks of Redmond, Cupertino, Redwood Shores, Armonk, etc.  More choices is better than less choices, period.

So whoever ends up with whatever Oracle doesn't want to give to the Document Foundation, I hope they keep the Solaris port alive.