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Am 18.06.2011 16:52, schrieb Mick: |
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> This may be of interest to some: |
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/446093/ |
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> Oracle is known for buying assimilating and killing most software that it |
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> buys, so this is a bit of a surprise. Perhaps it gave up on the idea of |
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> competing against Microsoft on the Office suite market space. |
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Unfortunately, it will most likely not stop the forked development. I |
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recommend the older Ars Technica article on this [1]. To sum it up: |
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1. Most LibreOffice-supporters with the exception of IBM want to stick |
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with The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. |
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2. The more permissive Apache license could prove detrimental because it |
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doesn't mandate publishing your proprietary changes (Libre- and OOo are |
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under LGPL). OOo could end up being the lowest common denominator |
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between a range of commercial forks (IBM Lotus Symphony, Oracle Open |
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Office, etc.) and LibreOffice. |
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[1] |
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/06/oracle-spurns-libreoffice-wants-to-give-ooo-to-apache-foundation.ars |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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