[ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

mac ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk
Sat Feb 19 07:00:05 UTC 2011


On 19/02/2011 06:05, Hassan "Haz" Williamson wrote:
> @Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the
> developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to
> their favour and might close down some aspects of OOo - either that or try
> to incorporate their own proprietary database system in somehow. I could be
> wrong, but that's just my opinion of it.

Yes, you'd expect Oracle to want to make money - it's what they do - and 
that means only giving (some) things to people who pay.  So they're 
bound to look for ways of doing that with stuff that Sun used to give 
away for nothing.





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