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Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave
Elektroschock writes "In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."
If the Oracle doesn't approve, secretly create an army of 300 of your best men.
openSUSE is switching as well. Not surprising, as they were shipping go-oo before.
i'm not sure how tacking an english word onto a Spanish one makes sense.
Colorado River?
>>LOffice
>How about LOLffice?
I maed you a documents ...but I ated it. ;_;
Exactly. Just like your post, their chat messages were incomprehensible and irrelevant.
It doesn't....but tacking an english word onto a french makes a lot of sense if you want to expand into Canada. However since there are more letters in 'office' than 'libre' they may still fall foul of the Quebec language police for being more english than french.
How about StarOffice for a name?
Sounds bloated and slow.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
LibreOffice is a fork of OO.org that was started because of Oracle's buyout of Sun. They asked Oracle to donate the OO.org name to their fork, and now Oracle has kicked them out of the OO.org community counsel. Hard to say if it's good or bad, but it looks to be the start of a fight.
FuckYouOffice would be a good name given the turn of events. And very counter-culture/rebellious.
In everyday usage, it could be shortened to FuckOff, like:
"What's that Open Source office suite you are using?"
"FuckOff."
"Wow, thanks. Gotta get me some of that."
or
"How can I convert this mysterious ODF document into Word format to read it on my Win98 computer?"
"FuckOff."
"Thank you, helpful person."
It's a name that could work well for FOSS.
But perhaps UpYoursOffice might be better because that sounds more like European-bastardized English and less Japanese than FuckYouOffice. But it's not as much fun.
Almost anything is better than LibreOffice. Obviously LibreOffice did not wind up with any of the marketing people in the divorce.
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Oracle's made a big mistake ...
That certainly is one thing they are good at.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Lets just call it GayOffice then and get it over with.
Nobody likes Oracle. Some actually like Microsoft, but the actual Oracle FanBoi count is weighted on the negative end of the scale, so mighty the vehemence of it's critics.
I believe that the LibreOffice team ought to couple their efforts with those of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and in response to Oracle, brand the forking venture: EFF-off .
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Never been known to fail..."
Depends on how you define good. They are doing it for the good of their stock holders. They are running a for-profit business remember.
Sux for us of course, but OSS was around before Oracle and will be around after. Consider this as a road bump, not a block.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Sir, there's at least one bug in your post.
Of course, "FreeOffice" just sounds cheesy and crappy (since "free" typically has some bad connotations, evoking the line "you get what you pay for"), and stupid English doesn't have separate words for free/beer and free/speech, so I have no idea what would be a good alternative.
Freedom Office. Liberation Office. Independence Office. American Office.
It's true that nobody likes Oracle, mostly, I think due to Larry Ellison. Slashdot needs to change the company icons now and give Oracle a Larry as Evil Emperor icon. Microsoft could also use a facelift, maybe something to reflect Ballmer's ineptitude at running a competitive tech company. Suggestions?
Besides, Microsoft Office is American. Maybe they should call it "Unamerican Office". Make Joseph McCarthy the official icon. :-D
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