On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 22:17 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
On 18/05/12 20:32, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Alan Cox wrote: OpenOffice then got given to Apache in what a lot of people consider a face saving exercise.
I guess what puzzles me is why Apache took it. Does it have a different model in mind?
Maybe Microsoft told them to?
Ha ha. I doubt it. More likely, it's because it has given Apache a lot of publicity, especially in the open source community. I can truthfully say that I now know a lot more about what the Apache people are really doing than I did before the OpenOffice/LibreOffice fork.
However, I have to believe that OpenOffice is pretty much doomed at this point. Because Apache uses a BSD-style unrestricted license, anything the OpenOffice people come up with can be freely merged into LibreOffice, but since Apache projects cannot use GPL-licensed code, the reverse is not true. So it will not be too long before LibreOffice leaves OpenOffice behind IMHO.
--Greg