Update: More contributors leave OpenOffice.org for LibreOffice

[Anthony Papillion]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Conrad Knauer wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
>> The more people leave the OOo community... the less control the
>> community has on what Oracle makes of OOo... and that's bad for the
>> community. But not necessarily bad for OOo if Oracle decides to put
>> enough resources behind OOo to make it even better. In fact, that's what
>> Oracle is doing just now... So the community is shooting itself in the foot.
>
<snip>
> Oracle is proving itself quite untrustworthy, but the beauty of
> software libre is that we can fork the code and move ahead, instead of
> having to be at the mercy of proprietary software companies.  Quite
> honestly I hope we see a repeat of what happened when the Mozilla
> Suite was separated and we got Firefox.

To be honest, I think that, if enough community members leave, Oracle will 
simply abandon OOo. Maybe I'm way off on their 'commitment' to open 
source but I don't see OOo as possessing any strategic value to them in 
the long run. Kind of like OpenSolaris except that directly competed with 
one of their 'for pay' products.

I don't think Oracle has *any* commitment to OOo except a token one to 
keep a good face with the open source community.

Just my $0.02,
Anthony


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