On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OpenOffice might share its fortune with XFree86 and you really will not > interested to use it anymore. > > That's the way OSS works. > Peter Quite on the contrary: I believe OpenOffice.org will live on, no matter if LibreOffice grows. Just as SeaMonkey lives on, despite the Mozilla FoundationÂs best efforts to move everyone to Firefox. ItÂs easy to take the bulk of well-written code developer over a decade and then "evolve" it with just a couple dozen developers, adding minor features and patches after each minor release number. The truth will be seen when both LO and OpenOffice.org start diverging and when Oracle decides to put several hundred developers to work on the next major version number full time, if Ubuntu/Fedora and hobbyist programmers in their spare time can match it. ItÂll be fun to watch, but I surely think the forking wasnÂt needed, and it was cause because of politcs, FUD, and paranoia. "ThatÂs the way OSS works" seems to be an excuse to fork, fork, fork. Has anyone heard of "Iceweasel" lately?. No, everyone refers to it by Mozilla.orgÂs name.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project Just my $0.02... FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
