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Weir: Where did the time go?Weir: Where did the time go?Posted Mar 14, 2012 15:14 UTC (Wed) by cmorgan (guest, #71980)Parent article: Weir: Where did the time go?
Tell me again why it makes sense to have the Apache OpenOffice project given the headstart and relatively fast pace of LibreOffice? Jeez. Of course everyone is welcome to develop whatever they want, this just seems nuts.
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Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 14, 2012 15:26 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
Lack of results says enough. Both seem to point at eachother. But LibreOffice seems to do so in a positive way, this blogpost seems a bit pointless. Further, LibreOffice has results (loads of developers, various releases). Whatever this blogpost claims, I prefer results.
Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 14, 2012 15:41 UTC (Wed) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
Oracle and IBM seem to dislike LibreOffice for some reason, and are backing (at least via lip service) this thing instead.
No idea what they gain from doing so though.
Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 14, 2012 16:39 UTC (Wed) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
> No idea what they gain from doing so though.
Permissively licensed software from which IBM can base their proprietary Symphony suite, reducing costs by "externalising" development to the community. Of course, that presumes a reason for the community to work on the project, which seems lacking.
I think back in the Sun days IBM would pay Sun great sums to get a license to include the code in their proprietary product (hence the copyright assignment requirement.) Nowadays they can't do that, and as Oracle has little interest in the project (and a lot fewer people would assign copyright to them anyway), hence this thing.
That's my understanding, anyway.
Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 15, 2012 14:16 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
But if one is paying for an office suite, why not buy Microsoft Office instead of IBM Symphony?
Or just use LibreOffice for free instead, which is likely to have similar or better features than the IBM product, and on Linux it's likely already instaled.
And if it's because of integration with other IBM proprietary stuff, then surely IBM could just ship LibreOffice and add the price of Symphony to the price of their other stuff; this way, they also get all the work on LibreOffice for free.
Oh, and LibreOffice is LGPL, so they can use it as a module in proprietary software just fine.
I really don't see the business model there.
Weir: Where did the time go? Posted Mar 22, 2012 1:27 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]
But IBM has now contributed (apparently) the whole of Symphony to the Apache project.
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