Update: More contributors leave OpenOffice.org for LibreOffice

[David Gerard]

On 3 November 2010 16:48, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:

> Open Office is Oracle's tool to compete with Microsoft on deals where
> desktop buget is a competitive advantage. They will NOT abandon OOo.
> They are actually making significant work to improve Open Office in
> enterprise environments (as you would imagine). To do so they have to
> make the free version (which is the core of the commercial product) as
> best as possible. So be assured that Oracle is VERY committed to Open
> Office. Now and for the future.


Then perhaps if Oracle stop behaving like sociopaths, the communities
will stop regarding them as untrustworthy and to be avoided wherever
possible.

The formation of LibreOffice is basically "you guys are too crazy and
dangerous to work with."


- d.