One more reason to contribute occasionally to the Libre office development teams. -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 9/3/16, Xen <list@xenhideout.nl> wrote: Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Goodbye to Open Office (maybe?) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, September 3, 2016, 8:01 AM CVAlkan schreef op 03-09-2016 13:50:
For those who
haven't seen this:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/openoffice-after-years-of-neglect-could-shut-down/ Is this a case of
"Where there's smoke ..." The LibreOffice developers that split off refused to contribute code under the "Oracle" license and according to the words of Mark Shuttlworth "made their work hell". (Made the work hell of the remaining paid Oracle employees). Since also LibreOffice was allowed to take code from ApacheOffice but not in reverse (due to it restrictive license) (LibreOffice had a license that forbade it from being given back to Apache/Oracle OpenOffice) any updates only flowed in one way and provided the doom for OpenOffice. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted