Re(1): Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 60.48.80.207]
on December 05, 2008 03:16 PM
If MS is to go after Mono users it will be committing PR suicide, besides they have no right to sue others, read http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing. And yes you are right Silverlight is not Open Sourced, Moonlight is. AFAIK IBM and Sun also holds many patents. Many big companies collect patents and I was at a talk by SImon Phipps of Sun who said companies accumulate patents (by buy or resgistering them) all the time. This is done so that no single company can "out gun" the other; sort of like MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) during the Cold War.
While it is true that Sun released OO.o and we in the Open Source community powe them much for it, do note that some of the assertions (http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794%26_artikelIndex=1) by Meeks & Co are valid. Why wouldn't they accept some of the improvements and patches? Did you know what triggered the go-oo split? Have at look at this, Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks (http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/03/1212234.shtml)
Attacking one another seems to be the norm in the Open Source world. KDE vs GNOME, vi vs emacs etc. Don't you already know that? Following your argument, all these attacks must be also be sponsored by MS correct? Don't blame others. The Open Source and Free Software world are peppered with opiniated and sometimes infantile people. Mr. OpenBSD himself, Theo de Raadt is an example.
The Free and Open Source worlds did not lose battles because of some nefarious schemes by MS or anyone. We did it to ourselves. If you are a total noob, how would you judge a bunch of guys who argues even on something as "trivial" as editors? I feel that go-oo is more open compared to OO.o from Sun. Yeah Sun has a bunch of forums and wikis and stuff, but where are the people? They don't seem to be engaging with the community. By the way, what is the escalation and security procedures for OO,o?
At least we can say that go-oo is a "work in progress". Sun's OO.o should have been a work done right?
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Re(1): Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 60.48.80.207] on December 05, 2008 03:16 PMWhile it is true that Sun released OO.o and we in the Open Source community powe them much for it, do note that some of the assertions (http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794%26_artikelIndex=1) by Meeks & Co are valid. Why wouldn't they accept some of the improvements and patches? Did you know what triggered the go-oo split? Have at look at this, Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks (http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/03/1212234.shtml)
Attacking one another seems to be the norm in the Open Source world. KDE vs GNOME, vi vs emacs etc. Don't you already know that? Following your argument, all these attacks must be also be sponsored by MS correct? Don't blame others. The Open Source and Free Software world are peppered with opiniated and sometimes infantile people. Mr. OpenBSD himself, Theo de Raadt is an example.
The Free and Open Source worlds did not lose battles because of some nefarious schemes by MS or anyone. We did it to ourselves. If you are a total noob, how would you judge a bunch of guys who argues even on something as "trivial" as editors? I feel that go-oo is more open compared to OO.o from Sun. Yeah Sun has a bunch of forums and wikis and stuff, but where are the people? They don't seem to be engaging with the community. By the way, what is the escalation and security procedures for OO,o?
At least we can say that go-oo is a "work in progress". Sun's OO.o should have been a work done right?
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