[The Java Posse] Re: Fork Oracle

2010-09-28 Thread RogerV
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

[The Java Posse] Re: Fork Oracle

2010-09-28 Thread Casper Bang
Apparently all major Linux distro's have already pledged their support: http://lwn.net/Articles/407383/ On Sep 28, 9:49 pm, CKoerner 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 man