Wow .. this is pathetic … the change was not too important but it is actually not the first time it happens. Funny thing is that at ApacheConEU I met some nice people from this company that wanted to hire OpenOffice developers.
Some people see AOO as a test to see if permissive licenses are better or worse than copyleft. The truth is that the practice of draining contributions from the competition by whatever means is the type of dirtiness that free software was meant to fight. Of course the FSF is also against AOO from the start so we will not get any sympathy there. Let me state this openly for those unaware: there are dark powers in play that want Apache OpenOffice as a project, as a product, and as a community to fail. It is not a coincidence that a redhat employee was openly asking to kill this project (for some issue with his mom - really). In this case, the contest, if someone still looks at it like that, is not about who has a better license/policy or about the capacity of the ASF to nurture and sustain big projects: this was always about deep pockets wanting to control a product. Business as usual, so to speak. It’s sad in a certain sense, but AOO will keep on as long as it continues to be useful for people independently of the games other communities play. Pedro. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
