On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 22:17 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 18/05/12 20:32, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Alan Cox wrote: > >> OpenOffice then got given to Apache in > >> what a lot of people consider a face saving exercise. > > > > I guess what puzzles me is why Apache took it. > > Does it have a different model in mind? > > > > Maybe Microsoft told them to? Ha ha. I doubt it. More likely, it's because it has given Apache a lot of publicity, especially in the open source community. I can truthfully say that I now know a lot more about what the Apache people are really doing than I did before the OpenOffice/LibreOffice fork. However, I have to believe that OpenOffice is pretty much doomed at this point. Because Apache uses a BSD-style unrestricted license, anything the OpenOffice people come up with can be freely merged into LibreOffice, but since Apache projects cannot use GPL-licensed code, the reverse is not true. So it will not be too long before LibreOffice leaves OpenOffice behind IMHO. --Greg -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
