I've never understood why they were so keen on helping Oracle thumb their nose at LibreOffice the rest of the FOSS community. My opinion of them took a nosedive when they did that, as I'm sure did many others'. What was the point, exactly?
Just a guess - they wanted to remain close bedfellows with the folks who control Java, because they had invested so much effort into Java based applications. This is where the Foundation went astray. They pinned their fortunes on a technology they did not control. Happens all the time.
Because they are not on the job of censuring content, and by that, i mean that they don't forbid any project to become an apache project just because there is a splinter group elsewhere.
Check in their docs how a project can become an apache project...
I've never understood why they were so keen on helping Oracle thumb their nose at LibreOffice the rest of the FOSS community. My opinion of them took a nosedive when they did that, as I'm sure did many others'. What was the point, exactly?
Er... You *do* know it was the LibreOffice folks who left the OO community to start a new fork, don't you? The motivation for the fork was that they considered Oracle untrustworthy. I happen to agree, but I don't see that Oracle acted maliciously in its short stewardship of OO. People who expected Oracle to contribute support to an "Oracle is Untrustworthy" OO fork weren't being realistic. Oracle was not obligated to support LIbreOffice, any more than you'd expect Red Hat to support CentOS. And under the
Shame on Apache for accepting OpenOffice and dashing the dreams of spiteful little pricks. I'm mean WTF? How dare they act like a mature organization. Don't they know that the driving force of all open source projects is spite? They need to get in line and be whiny little bitches like everyone else.
Openoffice needed a home away from Oracle, and the Apache Software Foundation is big enough to host it. Being removed from Oracle, OpenOffice was able to become a combination of Sun StarOffice and IBM Lotus Symphony. At this point in time, LibreOffice and AOO have different licenses - LO is GPL, and AOO is AL.
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I've never understood why they were so keen on helping Oracle thumb their nose at LibreOffice the rest of the FOSS community. My opinion of them took a nosedive when they did that, as I'm sure did many others'. What was the point, exactly?
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Just a guess - they wanted to remain close bedfellows with the folks who control Java, because they had invested so much effort into Java based applications. This is where the Foundation went astray. They pinned their fortunes on a technology they did not control. Happens all the time.
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I find this far more likely than any of the other explanations.
"Because they're mature enough to help Oracle act like a spoiled brat" doesn't really hold a lot of water, honestly.
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Because they are not on the job of censuring content, and by that, i mean that they don't forbid any project to become an apache project just because there is a splinter group elsewhere.
Check in their docs how a project can become an apache project...
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I've never understood why they were so keen on helping Oracle thumb their nose at LibreOffice the rest of the FOSS community. My opinion of them took a nosedive when they did that, as I'm sure did many others'. What was the point, exactly?
Er... You *do* know it was the LibreOffice folks who left the OO community to start a new fork, don't you? The motivation for the fork was that they considered Oracle untrustworthy. I happen to agree, but I don't see that Oracle acted maliciously in its short stewardship of OO. People who expected Oracle to contribute support to an "Oracle is Untrustworthy" OO fork weren't being realistic. Oracle was not obligated to support LIbreOffice, any more than you'd expect Red Hat to support CentOS. And under the
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Shame on Apache for accepting OpenOffice and dashing the dreams of spiteful little pricks. I'm mean WTF? How dare they act like a mature organization. Don't they know that the driving force of all open source projects is spite? They need to get in line and be whiny little bitches like everyone else.
Was that what you intended to sound like?
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Interesting you should put it that way. Would you call Oracle's handling of the whole thing "mature"?
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We're talking about what Apache did in relation to Oracle and OpenOffice/LibreOffice, which makes Oracle's actions very relevant.
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Openoffice needed a home away from Oracle, and the Apache Software Foundation is big enough to host it. Being removed from Oracle, OpenOffice was able to become a combination of Sun StarOffice and IBM Lotus Symphony. At this point in time, LibreOffice and AOO have different licenses - LO is GPL, and AOO is AL.
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I'm glad that Apache took over from Oracle. Why should the only active development be GPL licensed?