[PC-BSD Testing] OOs is dead. Long live OOo.

[Arthur Koziol]

On 04/18/2011 2:47 PM, Jesse Smith wrote:
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> From: Arthur Koziol<A-Koziol at neiu.edu>
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> Subject: [PC-BSD Testing] OOs is dead. Long live OOo.
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:14:31 -0500
>
> Wow, I was just reading a moment ago that Oracle has killed Open Office
> under the pressure of the en masse exodus to Libre Office by the
> original developers. To quote Nelson from the Simpsons: "Ha ha<pointing
> at Oracle>."
>
> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21401
>
> Arthur
>
>
>
> The article is pretty light on facts and is mostly anti-Oracle ranting.
> What Oracle has actually done is to stop offering OpenOffice as a
> commercial product. They say they're planning to turn OpenOffice into a
> community project.

Anti-Oracle? Maybe, but it's what a lot of us knew was going to happen 
in the end. Open Solaris went first. I think there are rumblings with 
OpenJava. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on that one too. I 
vaguely remember reading that it's one of the reasons Apple yanked Java 
or some such thing from OS X? Isn't it a bit hard to *not* be 
anti-Oracle considering how prevalent and positive many of these 
technologies were? Oracle lost a huge cash cow with Open Office IMHO. 
Good projects gone down the toilet.

Arthur