On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sounds as though the need for LibreOffice is about over, There was never a "need" for LibreOffice. Only competing companies wishing to wrest control of the project away from Oracle, like Novell wanted to do for a long time to take control away from Sun. (Go-OO). > we don't need two > project if Oracle is serious about having letting OO go. Nothing of what I read indicates this. What Oracle cancelled is "Oracle Open Office" which was the new name given to StarOffice, the commercial build of OpenOffice.org with the addition of propietary plug-ins. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3275075/oracle-kills-off-commercial-edition-of-openofficeorg/ You know, the product that used to be described at http://sun.com/staroffice and which redirected to this Oracle.com page http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/open-office-170241.html (and which now is gone) Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:apyVejeWkZUJ:www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/open-office-170241.html+oracle+open+office&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=seamonkey-a&source=www.google.com > The people at LO are > mostly former OO developers, so hopefully the projects could > be unified. Sun told me they had 100 paid developers working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. At the time of the much-hyped "exodus" of OpenOffice.org developers to "Libre" Office, the number of developers "leaving" was quoted at around 30. So that means the "exodus" was only one-third of the programming workforce, with 2/3 still employed by Oracle. Will Oracle lay off its 60 OpenOffice.org developers and cancel the OpenOffice.org project? nothing of what I read indicates that, just that they cancelled "Oracle Open Office", the commercial product (StarOffice). ItÂs the dumb ass reporting which confuses "Oracle Open Office" with OpenOffice.org ... 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
