openoffice is dead?

Sammy Lao self_same_self-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 18 12:56:01 UTC 2011


Big article on Ars Technica on it right now.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project.ars


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM, E K <ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Is it a mistake or can it be a hickup? I didn't have any problem to download OO from
>
> http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
>
>
> EK
>
> --- On Sat, 4/16/11, Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: openoffice is dead?
>> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>> Received: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 5:40 PM
>> Who cares? Everybody left to work on
>> LibreOffice anyway.
>> http://www.libreoffice.org
>>
>> Oracle is slowly realizing they can't just take an open
>> source project
>> and do whatever they want. Good for us.
>>
>> - FZ
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 17:58, Sammy Lao <self_same_self-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> > It's more probably that Oracle isn't seeing the
>> numbers to justify
>> > trying to have a commercial version of Star Office.
>> >
>> > This is probably a good thing. (I hope!)
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Browne
>> <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Christopher
>> Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Apparently openoffice.org is down, so it seems
>> as though Oracle wants
>> >>> to encourage migration to LibreOffice ;-).
>> >>
>> >> Very interesting...  Oracle has announced
>> intentions to somehow spin
>> >> off OpenOffice.org.  It's not at all obvious how
>> this will interact
>> >> with what has happened surrounding LibreOffice,
>> though it's
>> >> inconceivable that their intent hasn't been
>> influenced by the actions
>> >> of The Document Foundation.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm
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