Never attribute to malice...

Posted Jun 1, 2011 23:53 UTC (Wed) by nicooo (guest, #69134)
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

that which can be easily explained by incompetence. Before coming up with conspiracy theories, consider the possibility that Oracle failed at managing OOo and is now trying to fix things. So they're handing the code over to a group of people capable of doing things properly (hopefully).

Never attribute to malice...

Posted Jun 2, 2011 0:00 UTC (Thu) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link]

That would be fine but it seems to me Oracle hardly had enough time to manage OO and immediately started stepping on toes. That to me given Oracles history smells of if not malice then not giving a whit about anyone but themselves.

Never attribute to malice...

Posted Jun 2, 2011 11:53 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (guest, #36106) [Link]

If Oracle wanted to hand the code over to a group of people capable of doing things properly they'd hand it to the document foundation. No?

Never attribute to malice...

Posted Jun 7, 2011 17:10 UTC (Tue) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

You mean, it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, but it ain't a duck?

Yeah... By the way, I've got a bridge to sell. Interested?