On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 16:36, Miroslaw Baran <miroslaw.baran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > that even a huge corporation like Oracle IÂm not affiliated in any way with Oracle Corp. IÂm a freelance journalist struggling to make ends meet. I was just a happy OpenOffice.org user and saw nothing wrong with Contributor Agreements by Sun Microsystems. A vocal small group of developers, led by NovelÂs Mr. Meeks (by the way, Oracle is an evil corporation, and what is Novell? a not-for profit venture? Did Novell sign patent agreements with Microsoft? Did Novell promote MicrosoftÂs .Net with its Mono venture? yes? no? Did Novell develop patches for MicrosoftÂs OO-XML or not?). In fact, I did purchase StarOffice, as a way to promote OpenOffice.org development. (after all, it was Sun who footed the bill of most OpenOffice.org programmers). So is CanonicalÂs Shuttleworth an agent of Orace corp, as well, when he says "He contends that the pace of development for LibreOffice is not keeping up with what OpenOffice was able to achieve and wonders if OpenOffice would have been better off if the "factionalists" hadn't won. " IÂm sure Shuttleworth has a lot more "credibility" and inside knowledge than me, IÂm sure. What I do know are the facts... there was a commercial product (StarOffice) based on the FOSS OpenOffice.org, and now there is no more. There were 50 devs on ORCLÂs payroll working on OpenOffice.org and now there are no more. There were big plans for the commercial build of OO.o (StarOffice, renamed "Oracle Open Office" and developed in parallel with the Oo.o base) and now thereÂs no more. Thank you! LibreeOffice freedom fighters! In fact I downloaded the automatic upgrade from Sun StarOffice 9 to Oracle Open Office (built on OracleÂs OO.o 3.3 base) and it included a bunch of new connectors and plug-ins between Oo.o and a wide range of Oracle commercial software. You know, the kind of stuff that Corporations would have loved and have surely bought, increasing the profits and encouraging more devs on OpenOffice.org footed by Evil Oracle. But you know what? you win... applying a bit of doublespeak from 1984... less is more... defeat is winning... fork is king... Novell does wonders (just look at how they sank their company), and Mono rules. 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
