Office Software Politics

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:59:09PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> This, too, is not terribly encouraging of optimism today :-(
> http://lwn.net/Articles/411570/
> 
> But it may be reason to stand behind The Document Foundation...
> http://www.documentfoundation.org/
> 
> I've got a machine pulling down the source code:
> 
> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/build
> ./autogen.sh --with-git --with-num-cpus=2
> ./download
> make
> 
> That "download" step is a doozy, paralleling the whole "how many repos
> am I cloning?!?!??!" characteristic of doing a build of Android.  The
> code's pullable, in any case...

So how much of what Oracle bought will survive Oracle's treatment of it?

I think they may find that they have nothing left in the end the way
they are going about things.

Of course I am personally hoping Oracle succeeds at killing off Java.
I am pretty indefferent about the survival of Solaris and MySql.  Actually
I am probably pretty indefferent about the survival of openoffice too
for that matter.  I despise office suites, and openoffice is one of the
worse ones.

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Len Sorensen
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