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Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator
Julie188 writes "Oracle has finally officially spilled the beans: It's proposing OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project — and not handing it to The Document Foundation. Oracle had announced earlier this year that it would be passing the torch to the community, but failed to provide any specifics about the ultimate destination. The Document Foundation is the organization behind the OpenOffice fork, LibreOffice."
I wish OpenOffice and LibreOffice would un-fork and all the brain power stay behind one unified product.
I know Oracle is sketchy so I understand the fork, but if Oracle is trying to offload OpenOffice back to the open source community it would be nice to put politics aside.
Am I missing some underhanded scheme by Oracle that keeps their foot in the door on causing legal or support issues down the road?
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
The article has a reaction from The Document Foundation, and it looks like they are not interested in reuniting; they don't like the Apache license, but say they may change LibreOffice licensing to MPL or LGPL (now that they can thanks to the new Apache license).
Someone should just start a new, independent fork to end the confusion once and for all.
Good, now make two versions, one International version and one US version.
The international version should be the gold version, with the US version a crippled version which honors all the software patent follies going on in the US.
The rest of the world should just ignore their sissy talk.
Let us hope that Apache don't respect US software patents outside the US.
OK as long as the US users can d/l the gold version.
But ... but ... then your Web Browser would be a circumvention device!
That could NEVER be allowed to happen!
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