Office Software Politics

[Sadiq Saif]

I just got the .deb packages from their site, running smoothly on my Ubuntu
10.10 system.

Also, I don't know much about MySQL, but isn't it the industry standard for
web hosting databases etc.?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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