Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation [LWN.net]

Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 3, 2011 10:25 UTC (Fri) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by rahvin
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

_I_ honestly really don't like the LibreOffice name (may be the influence of my native language) It sounds crappy and weird IMO. OpenOffice sounds nice, friendly and smooth and has a good melody. Libre Office just sounds hard, radical, revolutionary and fundamentalist (my first associations)
That is also probably what most businesses will think. Maybe not as bad as I do, but it will be the gerneral direction I guess. Most Corparate types hate GPL, FSF, Libre-something etc.

Millions of people already know and like OpenOffice, I see it on computers of very normal people (who have no interest in computing whatsoever) all the time.

LibreOffice may soon be really big in the Linux world, but in the real world people, magazine, etc will contiunue to use OpenOffice if they continue to provide good Windows binaries. To normal users the differences on Windows are so small that they will not change away from something they already know. They will not care PERIOD
Keeping the name and joying the two projects is the hands down the best solution. Everybody who works against that needs step aside and have a look at the bigger picture.(Maybe even get his head checked) The more I read about the DF and how opposed they are to help Apache the more I think that Marks words about the people who run the DF are probably more true than I at first thought.

Releasing OO.o under ASL is a really big gift to the community. I really fail to see all the evil people try to read into it.

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It's funny

Posted Jun 5, 2011 10:35 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

LibreOffice may soon be really big in the Linux world, but in the real world people, magazine, etc will contiunue to use OpenOffice if they continue to provide good Windows binaries. To normal users the differences on Windows are so small that they will not change away from something they already know. They will not care PERIOD

It's funny how you define "real world" - like Linux is somehow unreal. As for users who "will not care PERIOD"... if don't see why we should care about these users. The final goal here is to move said users to Linux (well, *BSD will Ok too). If we can not even move them to different office suite because they can not learn the new name... then what's the point?

Everybody who works against that needs step aside and have a look at the bigger picture.

I'm sick and tired of looking on "bigger picture". It's not pretty: people (LibreOffice developers, Linux developers, etc) are spending a lot of time trying to help other people - but said other people "will not care PERIOD". IMNSHO it's well past time to stop looking on "bigger picture" and start fixing bugs which affect the life of the people who do care. Leave the people who don't care to IBM and Canonical.

Releasing OO.o under ASL is a really big gift to the community.

It's gift to the IBM. Which can not use latest version of OpenOffice.org codebase. Community can pick some pieces too, but there are absolutely no sense to do the IBM's work for free.

P.S. As for the name... who still remember (or care?) about Netscape or Mozilla? They were big names just a ten years ago. Today... Mozilla is the organization which produced Firefox - and that's it. If LibreOffice will indeed be more usable then OpenOffice.org then people will use it - fundamentalist name or not. If it'll be indistinguishable from OpenOffice.org... then will it really matter?