[conspire] (forw) Re: [Sclug] Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Goodbye to Open Office (maybe?)

[Rick Moen]

More about this matter in context, including more about the licensing
split, here:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Goodbye-to-Open-Office-maybe-td4192506.html

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 10:20:41 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: sclug at zdi.net
Subject: Re: [Sclug] Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Goodbye to Open Office (maybe?)
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Reply-To: Simi-Conejo Linux Users Group <sclug at zdi.net>

Quoting James E Lang (jelly at lang.hm):

[http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/openoffice-after-years-of-neglect-could-shut-down/]

> Interesting! 

And:  _Should_ Apache Open Office be shut down?  Hell yeah.  
This has been inevitable ever since the Oracle takeover of
Sun (OO.o stakeholder), for reasons Bryan Cantrill elucidates in the
clip linked in the article comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m

(No, it's certainly not Apache Software Foundation's fault.
They got shot in the foot by Oracle, too.)

As with Illumos and Oracle Solaris, licensing (in LibreOffice's case,
MPL) lets LibreOffice borrow AOO's advancements, the reverse isn't true
because (IIRC) ASF accepts only Apache-licensed code.
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