[CS-FSLUG] OOo and Go-oo, Vol 80, Issue 3

[George W. Rodier]

Le 2010-10-19 10:00, christiansource-request at ofb.biz a écrit :
> Send Christiansource mailing list submissions to
> 	christiansource at ofb.biz
>
[snip]
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>     1. Re: Oracle, OO.org and LibreOffice (Marco Tedaldi)
>     2. Re: Oracle, OO.org and LibreOffice (Ed Hurst)

[snip]
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:54:47 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Ed Hurst<ehurst at soulkiln.org>
>

[snip]

> As for distros moving to LibreOffice, it's funny quite a few had already
> switched to Go-oo (SUSE, Ubuntu, etc). Now I'm reading suggestions Libre
> will end up being absorbed by, or merge with, Go-oo. Don't know how
> true, but I feel sure Go-oo can use some better organization in one
> thing: Yum-based clients have no idea what they need to install and
> nothing on the site will help you figure it out. They very much need
> some user documentation, because the tell you absolutely nothing beyond
> "install this release package for a Yum repo."
>
> Ed Hurst
>

[snip]

 From the Document Foundation website I see that Canonical is committed 
to DF and so to LibreOffice . I had not known about Go-oo but found an 
interesting article, albeit from January 2009 with the intriguing title 
"OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian Knot". From my 
perspective he seems to through a bit of light of what might be going on 
even now.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3794611_1/OpenOfficeorg--vs--Go-OO-Cutting--through--the--Gordian--Knot.htm 


IF that author is anywhere near correct then I would expect Go-oo to be 
absorbed by LibreOffice rather than the other way around.

 From what was posted elsewhere in Vol 80 Issue 3, it looks as though 
Oracle will fight rather than switch. Wouldn't want Novell, IBM or even 
Canonical to actively contribute to OOo, eh? (I'll take my saucer of 
milk now.)

IF Oracle actually is seeking to copyright all code submitted for 
inclusion in OOo then I cannot see it surviving as a true FLOSS project.

Georges