Much the same toolsįound in OpenOffice are present. The LibreOffice starter screen looks similar to the OpenOffice starter screen, except instead of the flashy Oracle logo we have come to love and fear, it has a simple text Document Foundation below the basic multi-colored Libre Office title. There is even a document foundation planet for LibreOfficerians to call home. The Document Foundation mission statement is outlined here. Document Foundation is backed by many OpenOffice developers and corporate entities (Google, Novell,Canonical) to name a few. In addition to the fork, there is a new organizationĬalled Document Foundation to cradle the new project.
One new fork we were quite interested to hear about is LibreOffice, which is a fork of OpenOffice. Is in stable hands when its ecosystem is predominantly controlled by the whims of one big gorilla. Perhaps it's more Oracle's size and the size that Sun was before takeover that has made people take notice that no Open Source project For some projects where there is not much of a monetary incentive, many feel they have at best neglected e.g. To Oracle's defense, many do feel that they have done a good job with progressing the advancements of some of the Open Source projects they have shepherded.įor example getting MySQL patches more quickly in place etc.
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Why are people concerned? Perhaps the abandoning of projects such as OpenSolaris, the suing of Google over Java infringements, the marshalling out of many frontline contributors of core Open Source projects from Oracle, the idea of forking over license rights to a single company so they can relicense your code.Īll we know is that there is an awful lot of forking going on. There are Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris to name a few. Many people have been concerned with Oracle's stewardship of past Sun Microsystems open source projects.
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