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Their advantage is companies are willing to contributeTheir advantage is companies are willing to contributePosted Nov 5, 2012 12:26 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic) by dlang Parent article: LibreOffice and OpenOffice clash over user numbers (OStatic)
Which will vanish *when* (if it hasn't been completed already) the LO codebase goes truly LGPL/MPL.
Once that's done companies will be able to take the LO codebase and build proprietary stuff on it. Or do dumps into the codebase if that's what they want.
Cheers,
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Their advantage is companies are willing to contribute Posted Nov 5, 2012 14:33 UTC (Mon) by Tom6 (guest, #60418) [Link]
Hi :)
Adding their own stuff outside of one of the core projects doesn't necessarily mean feeding those additions back into either core project. Of course if they don't feed it back in then they have a much tinier number of people doing QA and then beta testing so it's a bit of a balancing act for them.
From a quality pov it's better to add "upstream" directly into whichever project but from a "keeping the secrets" (proprietary) pov it's better to keep their additions secret.
Both are fine and valid but only 1 really counts as contributing to the project.
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