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Oracle Buy Renews Call To Spin Off OpenOffice.org

Posted by kdawson on from the now-to-tempt-all-liberty-procured dept.

ericatcw writes "Some OpenOffice.org insiders say Oracle's purchase of Sun is reinvigorating the long-stymied push to spin off the open-source project into a 100% independent foundation. Freeing itself from Sun's (and soon to be Oracle's) orbit will attract more developers and more vendor support, two perennial problems due to Sun's tight grip on the project, say supporters, who wonder which foundation model might work best: Mozilla, Apache or Linux. Others prefer to take their chances under Larry Ellison, saying Oracle's take-no-prisoners salesforce and grudge against Microsoft could benefit OpenOffice.org. Version 3.0 of the Microsoft Office competitor has garnered 50 million downloads in the last six months."

2 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How 'bout the Interface? by lightning_queen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You just got too used to the PlaySkool interface. It's okay, it happens to a lot of people.

  2. Re:one trap to another... by solferino · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just because you move from Microsoft to an FOSS platform does not mean you are becoming more free nearly as much as you just trading service providers. Whether you get your browser from Microsoft or get it from Mozilla foundation, your Office from Microsoft, or your office from some Open Office foundation, doesn't matter. In all cases there's some other body that ultimately controls the direction of the software.

    This comment, showing complete ignorance of the benefits of using Free Software, gets modded +4 insightful? Not to mention its bad grammar? Put down the crack pipe mods.