[libreoffice-users] Apache - LibreOffice connections (was Re: Libre Office being recommended on MicrosoftAnswers Forums!)

I have no insight into what Microsoft folks think of the OpenOffice.org -> Apache license grant by 
Oracle.  The ones I know are aware of it. 

There is overlap among contributors at the Apache project and on LibreOffice.  No one at Apache 
tells their contributors where they cannot (nor must) contribute. 

A little fact-checking:

 1. The Oracle grant was announced on June 1.  The Apache OpenOffice.org incubator podling was 
approved at Apache on June 13.  <http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html>.

 2. The transfer is not complete at this time.  The podling is working at how to move repositories, 
http://openoffice.org, etc. preceding a review of the IP provenance of everything.  They are also 
working on making sure that they have clear agreement on what the Oracle grant covers.

There have been two monthly status reports (scroll down to OpenOffice.org in the alphabetical list 
of reports):
 2011 July report, <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2011>
 2011 August report, <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2011>

 3. While there is an announced intention to contribute some source code of IBM Lotus Symphony, 
that has not happened at this point and it probably won't until we're clear on (2).  An Apache ODF 
Toolkit podling was recently approved and will receive the code of the ODF Toolkit Union for 
starters, <http://incubator.apache.org/projects/odftoolkit.html>.  This is an independent podling 
at this point.  The mailing lists aren't up just yet.  

 4. I didn't know, until I started working on Apache projects in June, that there is an Apache POI 
Top Level Project (TLP) which is producing a Java API for Microsoft Documents 
<http://poi.apache.org/>.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:26
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended on MicrosoftAnswers Forums!

Hi :)
Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it".  
Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few 
weeks ago.  


There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2 
projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in both 
again.  It's  bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so 
it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a "poisoned 
pawn".  I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF, 
effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable.  Then IBM 
donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable.  
OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary 
mind-set again.  


Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have taken 
place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting 
"Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead.  Still, it's probably best not 
to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel 
especially if it's not directly from MS.
Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: "JEBwebs@gmail.com" <jebwebs@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 19:06:21
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office being recommended on 
MicrosoftAnswers Forums!

There's a good possibility the LO recommendation being due to the Gates - 
Ellison feud.  Ellison owns Oracle. Oracle owns OO.  Most know more about OO 
then they do LO.  Hence the reason for MS's LO recommendation. Then there's the 
900lb Gorilla factor:  LO is cost free.  OO looks like it's going to be a for 
$$$ item at Oracle.



On 8/12/2011 9:36 AM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "upscope"<upscope@nwi.net>
>
> > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 03:07:54 PM Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > On Friday 12 August 2011 00:22:12 planas wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:59 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > > > On 11/08/2011 20:43, planas wrote:
> > > > > > Gordon
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:24 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > > > > > Yes it's true!
> > > > > > > I see this more and more - LO being recommended to people
> > > > > > > who've bought a computer with a Trial version of Office 2010
> > > > > > > that's expired...
> > > > > > +1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Where is this happening?
> > > > > here's one thread:
> > > > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-window
> > > > > s_
> > > > > install/have-windows-7-on-computer-try-and-open-a-doc-and/166d69
> > > > > 8d- b3a0-4a56-9dee-1fb0aba2a3a9
> > > > >
> > > > > By an MVP no less!
> > > > Priceless - getting a plug from the "enemy's" camp.
> > > The logical next step is for somebody to reply to that helpful hint,
> > > and suggest that the fellow go the whole hog and dump his Win7
> > > altogether.
> > +5 that's what I did 12 years ago when my Win ME died.
> LOL - Not quite 12 years as it came out in 2000 (Windows Millennium) and you 
> probably got
> WinME after that  ;-)

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