On 11/3/10 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi there, > > Now, having said that, I didnÂt like the hysteria surrounding > OpenOffice.org, and I think Oracle will do an OK job advancing the > open source project going forward. > The 'hysteria' surrounding 'OpenOffice.org' is not what you state it is. Oracle bought Sun, Oracle does not subscribe to the 'OpenSource is better' mantra that Sun did. Thus, OpenOffice.org, minus the patented code was released as LibreOffice. RedHat and other distributions realize that OpenOffice.org will soon become 'pay as you go' software under the StarOffice label and have decided to embrace LibreOffice. > I also donÂt trust Novell a single bit, and I think sooner rather than > later, theyÂll end up polluting "LibreOffice" with Mono. I donÂt want > that. > Too bad. The had the best directory service that I've worked with just because of that: It worked and was universal rather than the 'Active Directory' crap that Microsoft foists on the unsuspecting. > So, here I am, a happy Fedora user, but whoÂd like to continue using > OpenOffice.org. What chance is there (if any) of an end user like me > of influencing Fedora direction to keep supporting OpenOffice.org ?. > Who makes those kind of decisions? Has Fedora or RedHat made any > statement wrt OO.o going forward?. > You can always add OO.o to your system. However, RedHat and others will not be including it in their packages for a number of reasons, most of them legal. Also, in the spirit of FOSS, this is a 'good thing'. OpenOffice.org was a Sun thing. It is NOT an 'Oracle' thing. James McKenzie -- 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
