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Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
TRS-80 writes "Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver, an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org. After three years of jumping through Sun's hoops on his own time, Sun says it will duplicate the work because Kohei doesn't want to sign over ownership of the code. Adding insult to injury, Sun then invites him join this duplication. Because of Sun's refusal to accept LPGL extensions in the upstream code, Michael Meeks (who recently talked about Sun's OO.o community failings, and ODF and OOXML) has announced ooo-build (previously just for build fixes) is now a formal fork of OpenOffice to be located at http://go-oo.org/. "
When will people learn that bickering like this is completely pointless and is in no one's best interests?
Because I strongly suspect there is an "agreement" with Sun/Microsoft on OO. This product is just way to threatening to MS longterm to not try to get some agreement with Sun in relation to how it is handled... Basically they would never want to get rid of it, but rather just slow/stagnate/bloated its development... That appears to be exactly what Sun is doing. It also helps explain IBM's entrance into the fray...