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Aklyon

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Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« on: April 22, 2011, 10:34:19 am »
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 11:13:34 am »
I had heard there was bad blood and defections. Not totally unexpected.
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 11:17:50 am »
I knew there was defections and LibreOffice, but the last time this was in the news it seemed Oracle was determined to sell some version of it.
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 01:01:21 pm »
At any rate, I guess OO ist kaputt. I have downloaded libreoffice to give it a try, see how is it
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2011, 03:01:43 pm »
Good riddance, the more taken out of Oracle's grasp the better. viva LibraOffice
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2011, 03:03:21 pm »
So far so good. I've not noticed many improvements or (conversely) unstability, but then again I've not made use of any particularily advanced feature yet.
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Re: Oracle gives up on OpenOffice
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2011, 03:42:28 pm »
Recently I was made aware of the whole LO fork, and tried the LO alongside OO.  Basically the same, obviously, as it's too soon to see any significant forking of development decisions.

Those who have already forked off (huhuhuhuh![/beavisandbutthead]) aren't going to be directly affected.  Those who were thinking of jumping from OO to LO because of Oracle now may decide either way, if together with those who were still happy to be working on OO there's enough people to keep an Oracle-less OO version.

But I'm not privvy to the innermost politics (and practicalities) of the situation, so maybe OO is totally doomed.  Still, as LO==OO (and instead of the next version of OO, the next version of LO would be just as improved/enhanced/different), as an end-user I'll probably go where the wind blows, or stick around if it doesn't (or even blows back).
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