Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:24:36 -0500 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Main Site: http://www.documentfoundation.org/ Probably best for the long run... Our package maintainers follow their projects. In fact Andy is already working on new packages, he posted this to arch-dev-public. PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict your emails to the more useful stuff. Dieter
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
I know a fork can be a pain but why do you say Ugh? When the project was under Sun they maintained way too tight of control over everything and they really didn't get the whole Open Source philosophy. Under Oracle? Well, we've seen what they've done with OpenSolaris I think that Oracle is trying to be the new M$.
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Thanks David, i had seen the name libreoffice somewhere, but it didn't ring a bell so far. mvg, Guus
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2010-09-29 09:39:07 +0200: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:24:36 -0500 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Main Site: http://www.documentfoundation.org/ Probably best for the long run... Our package maintainers follow their projects. In fact Andy is already working on new packages, he posted this to arch-dev-public. PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict your emails to the more useful stuff. Dieter I really didn't know of it before the two threads on this list that mentioned it now. On the other hand, neither message made clear what's actually going on. Which seems to be... 1) There were plans for an independent foundation before, but they were never realised 2) Oracle seems to not have interest in some of the stuff they acquired with sun 3) Oracle seems to be a huge, slow and bureaucratic monster The above is just the impression I got from reading some stuff about it
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:39, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict your emails to the more useful stuff. As you clearly see this as an obscene transgression and a gross invasion of your valuable inbox space, why further aggravate the problem by posting to the list to criticize the OP for posting to the list?
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
On 09/29/2010 09:30 AM, John Holbrook wrote: I know a fork can be a pain but why do you say Ugh? When the project was under Sun they maintained way too tight of control over everything and they really didn't get the whole Open Source philosophy. Under Oracle? Well, we've seen what they've done with OpenSolaris I think that Oracle is trying to be the new M$. The only reason I say Ugh... is the older I get, the more a creature of habit I become. A decade ago I used to get excited when packages forked and had the time to go play. Today, 3-kids later, time is at a premium and I prefer when things just continue to work so I don't end up spending 10's of hours trouble-shooting and writing bug reports. I still do the trouble-shooting and I still write bug reports, but exciting it ain't and something else has to get pushed off to do it. That being so, I'm not at all unhappy about the choice to fork OO. I think the devs saw some real conflicts in culture coming down the road and were probably really smart to do it before a crisis ensued. So all Ugh's aside, I'm optimistic about LibreOffice and I'm just crossing my fingers the fork doesn't cost me a work-week worth of hours over the next year to trouble-shoot and bug. If it does -- that's a price I'm willing to pay :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:31 +0300, Cristopher Thomas wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:39, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict your emails to the more useful stuff. As you clearly see this as an obscene transgression and a gross invasion of your valuable inbox space, why further aggravate the problem by posting to the list to criticize the OP for posting to the list? Educational purpose? Its always kinda odd to see posts along the lines of 'why bother posting this noise?' since its quite self-implicatory. And yes, this applies to all 3 of these replies so far.
