Because there are people that will buy MySQL (Yres, buy, and pay for, not just download and use for free) that will not buy Oracle. At least not yet. By leveraging MySQL support, they could get a foot in the door.
If that happens (and you may well be correct), I predict that Oracle will follow up by attacking LibreOffice with patent claims in order to re-assert OpenOffice's market position.
Oracle may find it hard to enforce patents against software that Oracle released under GPL. Ooops!
Linux distros, yeah... wow, an awesome 1% market share at their disposal. Success guaranteed.
Yep. I am part of that 1%. I also make purchasing decisions for my company. I don't force anything on anyone, but I do discourage hardware that does not have cross platform support. I use my old paperport scanner with only Windows 95 drivers as an example of why... We are a 1% with a bit more clout than a random 1%. Assuming we bathe first.
That is not what he said. He said, "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu." I see no timeline and no commitment in that statement. Just a statement of support for an option...
Libre Office gives an air of smugness like the one that you get from <insert minority here> rights movement, or from vegans and other super ecofriendly people.
Fascinating how you manage to insult minority rights movements, vegans, "super ecofriendly" people and Libre Office contributors in one sentence:-/
Now if only the open office coders could be that efficient.
And everyone suddenly discovers that they're sick of all the stupid fighting and would rather stick with 7-bit clean ASCII and downloads Notepad++ or vim.
Downloading notepad? You filthy pirate! You are costing Microsoft billions of dollars in lost revenue!
It is easy to say you do all the work, when you don't let anyone else in. The problem of accepting patches was the whole reason behind go-oo. Which make me wonder... Why fork again? Will they join forces? Terrible name if the do.. LO-GO:)
This is open source where code and be freely shared, and could flow from OO to LO and back again...
No it can't. Open Office had a paid and an open version. LO only has an open version. Without the copyright assignment in OO, they can't take the code back in. So OO will rapidly get left in the dust, or radically change there processes. I see that as a win-win, actually.
Those numbers are only the official economy. They do not included the massive amounts of drug money and cash remittances smuggled back in. They also include world trade. While the US is 75% of the official economy, it is not all of it. However, it is a large part (if not all) of the remittances. This skews the numbers back towards what I was talking about.
I just have to think -- when was the last time a large corporation was fined $1 billion for anything? This has to be just because he had a crappy lawyer or something. Justice quality depends on personal resources in America, no doubt about it.
The real question is when have they paid it... There have been fines. (Reduced on appeal)
With the violence, and destruction that is rampant over there (specifically to western companies) there may not be much money to be made. And Iran is not in it for profit.
It's no different than management or its agents showing up at the same theater you do or restaurant with the intent on listening to your conversations. Or maybe crashing a neighborhood party and asking your neighbors about you.
Only if they also own the theater or restaurant. Many people forget that the cell phone and computer and Internet the company pay for belong to them. If you want privacy, use your own computer, phone and Internet...
If you're for releasing to the public domain then why do you care if the RIAA survives? Think about it.
I can not find the link, but a bar was fined almost out of business for allowing a musician to play his own music (written by him) without paying a performance royalty to ASCAP. So that is why I want them gone. I actually would not mind paying for music, as long as none of the money goes to those marauding bastards.
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Or towers with large slow moving fas, and lots of air space... Cheaper for the performance that way too.
Because there are people that will buy MySQL (Yres, buy, and pay for, not just download and use for free) that will not buy Oracle. At least not yet. By leveraging MySQL support, they could get a foot in the door.
If that happens (and you may well be correct), I predict that Oracle will follow up by attacking LibreOffice with patent claims in order to re-assert OpenOffice's market position.
Oracle may find it hard to enforce patents against software that Oracle released under GPL. Ooops!
Linux distros, yeah... wow, an awesome 1% market share at their disposal. Success guaranteed.
Yep. I am part of that 1%. I also make purchasing decisions for my company. I don't force anything on anyone, but I do discourage hardware that does not have cross platform support. I use my old paperport scanner with only Windows 95 drivers as an example of why... We are a 1% with a bit more clout than a random 1%. Assuming we bathe first.
That is not what he said. He said, "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu." I see no timeline and no commitment in that statement. Just a statement of support for an option...
Standard open definition - Office? sod-off It is foreign, clever, and printable in popular media.
Libre Office gives an air of smugness like the one that you get from <insert minority here> rights movement, or from vegans and other super ecofriendly people.
Fascinating how you manage to insult minority rights movements, vegans, "super ecofriendly" people and Libre Office contributors in one sentence :-/
Now if only the open office coders could be that efficient.
I am not so sure... The stability of go-oo is a known quantity. The stability of the debut of LO is also known, and not so good.
I think I saw that on bit torrent... Or was it red tube?
And everyone suddenly discovers that they're sick of all the stupid fighting and would rather stick with 7-bit clean ASCII and downloads Notepad++ or vim.
Downloading notepad? You filthy pirate! You are costing Microsoft billions of dollars in lost revenue!
Everyone always looks at the system. No system works when the people running it don't.
And I think of booze all day at work anyway...
It is easy to say you do all the work, when you don't let anyone else in. The problem of accepting patches was the whole reason behind go-oo. Which make me wonder... Why fork again? Will they join forces? Terrible name if the do.. LO-GO :)
This is open source where code and be freely shared, and could flow from OO to LO and back again...
No it can't. Open Office had a paid and an open version. LO only has an open version. Without the copyright assignment in OO, they can't take the code back in. So OO will rapidly get left in the dust, or radically change there processes. I see that as a win-win, actually.
How is it good for stockholders is they piss away assets? MySQL and Open Office can bring them customers of other products, and goodwill. Or not...
Those numbers are only the official economy. They do not included the massive amounts of drug money and cash remittances smuggled back in. They also include world trade. While the US is 75% of the official economy, it is not all of it. However, it is a large part (if not all) of the remittances. This skews the numbers back towards what I was talking about.
Like Mexico cares. Their biggest trade item is illegal anyway. (Weed and labor) And the backlash is building elsewhere.
I just have to think -- when was the last time a large corporation was fined $1 billion for anything? This has to be just because he had a crappy lawyer or something. Justice quality depends on personal resources in America, no doubt about it.
The real question is when have they paid it... There have been fines. (Reduced on appeal)
No, they will just move overseas like everyone else. Get used to changing .com to .se or .es over the next few years...
Linux is better than Windows.
better != perfect
Then I guess we can fish there.
Think bigger... Masturbate to support global climate change!
With the violence, and destruction that is rampant over there (specifically to western companies) there may not be much money to be made. And Iran is not in it for profit.
Verizon has the ability to block all texts.
It's no different than management or its agents showing up at the same theater you do or restaurant with the intent on listening to your conversations. Or maybe crashing a neighborhood party and asking your neighbors about you.
Only if they also own the theater or restaurant. Many people forget that the cell phone and computer and Internet the company pay for belong to them. If you want privacy, use your own computer, phone and Internet...
If you're for releasing to the public domain then why do you care if the RIAA survives? Think about it.
I can not find the link, but a bar was fined almost out of business for allowing a musician to play his own music (written by him) without paying a performance royalty to ASCAP. So that is why I want them gone. I actually would not mind paying for music, as long as none of the money goes to those marauding bastards.