And so they imagine that some sugar daddy corporation will step into the gap and fund development of this fork?
There are some software libraries and frameworks where community- driven maintenance works out. But software of this level of sophistication and complexity needs more substantial funding in order to keep attracting interest from a user base. There needs to be a plan to monetize the fork... On Sep 28, 12:49 pm, CKoerner <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: > And it begins... > > A group of key contributors to the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project have > formed a new organization called the Document Foundation to manage a > community-driven fork of the popular open source office suite. Their > goal is to liberate the project from Oracle's control and create a > more inclusive and participatory ecosystem around the software. > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/document-foundation-f... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
