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33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

dkd903 writes "We all knew it would come to this, and it has finally happened — 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way."

7 of 500 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Well... by surveyork · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a spork.

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    2019 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop.
  2. Re:childish.. by Narishma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The only one I see crying and yelling it you...

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    Mada mada dane.
  3. Re:Well... by uberjack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is a fork, but the cake is a lie.

  4. Re:LibreOffice will join the ranks of Linux... by Anarke_Incarnate · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm using exact, measured and explicit definitions. My mom calls the box with the components her hard drive. That doesn't mean, no matter how many times she says so, that she is correct.

  5. Re:Well... by gknoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lunch Trek III: The Search for Sporks?

  6. Re:Ah, choice is a problem now? by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is 300 variations a problem? If the free market provided 300 different options in a market, economists would be lauding said market for providing customers with so much choice. Would we complain that efforts were being split 300 ways? Would we ask why we need 299 inferior versions of said product? No, we would not.

    Speak for yourself. I would certainly complain about 299 inferior versions.

    Please explain how having 300+ variations of something impacts you personally in any negative way.

    There's a whole book about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

  7. Re:Ah, choice is a problem now? by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is 300 variations a problem? If the free market provided 300 different options in a market, economists would be lauding said market for providing customers with so much choice.

    Obviously, you don't understand the people who are criticizing Linux. They don't like choice, they want only one choice. That's why they're called Communists. They want things to be forced on people, instead of allowing them to choose.