Hi Varun, everyone, 2010/8/25 Varun Mittal <varunmitta...@gmail.com>
> Oracle anywayz filed a suit only against Google. Oracle filed a patent suit against Google's implementation of Oracle's open-source Java in Google's open-source Android OS. How does that not undermine Oracle's relationship to open-source? > > Any Open Source project is dependent on its community and not on a company > for its survival. You're right. That's one of the best things about open-source -- a good project never dies (unless it's killed by patent suits). > Secondly market has enough MS hater corporates who would > like to support anything which hurt MS on its one of the most profitable > products. > Actually, most people hate MS because of its "evil" monopolistic tactics used in killing the competition. That's exactly how Oracle is now behaving: it's attacking one of the most successful fruits of open-source because of a ridiculous patent suit concerning, surprisingly, its open-source Java. And that really makes me move away from Oracle... Anyway, I really hope OOo is branched by some other company that will really dedicate time and (donated or ad-gained) money to the suite, really make it the best possible office suite ever, take over its massive user base.
