2010/10/3 AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> > On 03/10/10 00:15, John Kennedy wrote: > >> On 10/02/2010 06:04 PM, AG wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> Given Novell's recent buy-out of Sun Microsystems, the subsequent loss >>> of OOo and OpenSolaris it is time to shift towards LibreOffice to show >>> support for the history of OOo and the ethos of open source software. >>> >>> Having just recently installed the 3.3 beta version for Debian testing, >>> I'm pleased to be able to report a clean bill of health, a vibrant >>> community and a stable code-base. >>> >>> Making the switch is quite straight forward. Just follow the >>> instructions at the document foundation >>> < >>> http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/366193:libreoffice-and-document-foundation-announced> >>> >>> as well as described here <http://www.documentfoundation.org/>. >>> >>> Support the open source philosophy that gave us all OOo in the first >>> place. >>> >>> AG >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org >>> >>> >> 1) Novell did not buy Sun - Oracle did >> 2) OOo is still being developed by Oracle. While the liklihood of that >> continuing in the future is unclear, for now there is no need to panic. >> Oracle will give warning before they pull the rug out (they did with >> OpenSolaris) which would then give ample opportunity to fork to a new >> version. >> FUD works both ways... >> John >> >> Doh! Thanks John - my bad: Oracle *was* the one who bought out Sun, not > Novell. Thanks for the correction. > > Anyway, the newly installed LibO (apparently the preferred abbreviation) > does look pretty good. Whether or not Oracle are going to pull the plug is > difficult to determine of course, but the OOo project has already been > forked and seems to be gathering a fair head of steam in terms of support. > > I suppose the concern is that, given Oracle's treatment of OpenSolaris, the > developer community were not keen to run a similar risk with OOo and have > Oracle claim rights and so on to the code base if it continued to be > developed after Oracle bought out Sun. > > This is all speculative of course, but it would be a real shame if Oracle > did do a nasty! > > AG >
AG, any idea on when the language packs for the 3.3 beta will become available from LibreOffice ?... Henri
