OpenOffice still has the major benefit that they were able to take it completely to Apache licensing which most business prefer. There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
Then they deserve to have higher costs for retaining idiotic lawyers. I hope they keep it up, it'll make my company more competitive.
There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
Then they deserve to have higher costs for retaining idiotic lawyers. I hope they keep it up, it'll make my company more competitive.
I interviewed for a SysAdmin position at a government contractor way back in 1998 and asked about flexible working hours. The manager said their lawyers said it wasn't allowed. I said my current company, also a contractor at the same facility, had flexible hours. The manager said, "I don't know how they can do that." and I replied, "Perhaps we have better lawyers." They offered me a job, but I (obviously) didn't accept. Besides that stupidity, they only had 1 computer with Internet access, on a desk in
Besides that stupidity, they only had 1 computer with Internet access, on a desk in a common area.
There was that going on at an electricity company I was working for in 1996 - for "quality" reasons (everything was for "quality" reasons) there was only one machine with WEB access on a desk in a common area and a booking sheet to use it. As for NET access, we had email, and in those days ftpmail was a thing so cunning employees with email only access could send requests to an ftpmail server out on the net to email web pages, http downloads or ftp downloads. Attachment size limits were set to be very large back then.
GPL (Score:-1, Flamebait)
OpenOffice still has the major benefit that they were able to take it completely to Apache licensing which most business prefer. There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
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There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
Then they deserve to have higher costs for retaining idiotic lawyers. I hope they keep it up, it'll make my company more competitive.
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There are multiple large companies that straight out ban LibreOffice on their premises because of the risk that macros and document data will have to be released as GPL.
Then they deserve to have higher costs for retaining idiotic lawyers. I hope they keep it up, it'll make my company more competitive.
I interviewed for a SysAdmin position at a government contractor way back in 1998 and asked about flexible working hours. The manager said their lawyers said it wasn't allowed. I said my current company, also a contractor at the same facility, had flexible hours. The manager said, "I don't know how they can do that." and I replied, "Perhaps we have better lawyers." They offered me a job, but I (obviously) didn't accept. Besides that stupidity, they only had 1 computer with Internet access, on a desk in
Re:GPL (Score:2)
There was that going on at an electricity company I was working for in 1996 - for "quality" reasons (everything was for "quality" reasons) there was only one machine with WEB access on a desk in a common area and a booking sheet to use it.
As for NET access, we had email, and in those days ftpmail was a thing so cunning employees with email only access could send requests to an ftpmail server out on the net to email web pages, http downloads or ftp downloads. Attachment size limits were set to be very large back then.