Good Morning Group,
I'm a bit confused. What is FOSS & FUD and why would any of us think
"Open Office is pretty much only a memory" (per Mr Cassia).? I join Mr.
Davis' opinion. I tried LibreOffice (LO) not knowing about Apache Open
Office (AOO), and didn't like LO. It was too different from OO 3.3.
If Mr Cassia is literally referring to the Open Office of Oracle then he
is correct, but LO ain't it.
How and why is Mr Cassia in this List group If he detests AOO so much. I
can't judge his statements about the Linux version, I am a happy Win7
user of AOO, especially since it went into Apache's main level of support.
I read the articles included in Mr Cassia's email. I didn't understand ,
since most of it referred to SQL, MySQL, Maria/DB and not to LibreOffice
The websites were geared to Linux, maybe that's why this diatribe makes
no sense to me.
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
Chuck Davis wrote on 9/18/2013 5:58 AM:
LibreOffice is a pile of crapware in my experience. Q.C. seems to be
missing in action! OpenOffice has always done what I need to get done
without irritating the daylights out of me.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
(and MySQL too, and probably the same that would like for Oracle's
investments in FOSS to end).
"LibreOffice, as you know, is now the defacto office suite of choice
among Linux users and is rapidly gaining traction in the Windows world
as well. "
"OpenOffice is pretty much only a memory"
http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/oracle-losing-its-mysql-grip-to-mariadb-130916110509.html
Citebite archive: http://pages.citebite.com/l2e1g0y0r4kpb
Apparently the original story has been pulled from FOSSFORCE.COM, but
not before it was widely spread around...
This is the same scenario as when Googles move from MySQL to MDB is
mirrored everywhere, yet Mozilla's decision, on technical merits to
move from MDB to MySQL 5.6 gets no mention whatsoever.
https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372319624043716608
https://twitter.com/sheeri/status/372099540624478208
Of course, truth is just a small peeble in the shoes of a good FUD
campaign... doesnt stop them. Apache OpenOffice or MySQL: the tactics
are the same, lie,lie, and lie again.
Some of the lies stick and become common, widespread truths repeated
without fact-checking. The rest is herd behaviour and copy-paste IT
journalism. Case in point:http://tinyurl.com/muktware-liars vs reality
http://tinyurl.com/lsvya6f
Or: http://pages.citebite.com/c2u1y0m0q5vti vs:reality:
https://twitter.com/myfear/status/380190532552884225
This isnt healthy. It needs to stop.
In the wise words of Shuttleworth: http://pages.citebite.com/e7v0f3m9sder
Is the Evil Empire of Redmondia behind this campaign to portray IBMers
as inept (Rob Weir has mentioned some of the FUD coming from the ither
side wrt Sidebar and IBMs contributions) and Oracle as evil, when both
firms are investing a lot in FOSS development (in the case of Oracle,
investing a lot in Linux kernel engineers, OpenJDK, Netbeans,
Glassfish, releasing JavaFX 2.0 under a GPL license, Virtualbox,
etc..) Or is someone else behind this persistent FUD? Some firm that
perhaps wants its web services to replace everything else?
Thinking aloud
FC
--
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act
Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un
Acto Revolucionario
- George Orwel
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