On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:03 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
Why don't LibreOffice and OpenOffice merge now that Oracle has ceded the OO code to the Apache Foundation? Splitting developer talent between the two and introducing format incompatibilities between the two will kill one or the other over time. The document foundation is open to the idea, anybody got the scoop from the Apache side?
The problem is license -- most of the LO code is licensed under LGPL, so backporting it to Apache licensed code will require acceptable of _all_ community members, _or_ rewriting sizable chunks of code. The question is: How active OO will be ? Read: How much developers working on it? My understanding is that Linux / OSS community developers left it, and according to rumors Oracle fired their OOo devs too. (true?) The only one interested in OOo is IBM - but how much resources (developers) they will actually put behind this interest ? Obviously I agree, that if compromise can be found, re-union could be a possibility. (Compiz and Beyil merged into Compiz-Fusion after all...)
I have had nothing but grief from the fork. Both LO and OO work fine, but when I can't edit an OO document in LO and have it open again in OO without a 'save as' to an older OO format in LO -- something is wrong. The community doesn't need this type of distraction if wider OS desktop acceptance is the goal. If anybody know any more on the apache side, I'd welcome the thoughts.
Did it ever happen ? I can read all my OO docs in LO. (if yes, start separate thread on this technical issues, and keep this thread for politics) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org