What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 9, 2016 1:09 UTC (Fri) by bunk (subscriber, #44933)
In reply to: What's next for Apache OpenOffice by jimjag
Parent article: What's next for Apache OpenOffice

> 3. People have also forgotten that choices, even in FOSS, are a Good Thing. LibreOffice is very successful, and they should be congratulated for their success. But certainly there is room for other players in this game, and certainly room for one (or more) that are under a permissive license. The thing is is that they don't have to be clones; they can have different audiences, different "missions" so-to-speak.

What "audiences" and "missions" do you have in mind for AOO, that would differ significantly from what LO is currently doing?

> 4. It is sad when we in the FOSS community degrade ourselves to simple, base license-wars. There are good, solid reasons for permissive, weak copyleft and strong copyleft, and I've contributed to them all.

Jim, you are the only one who is harping the license topic all the time.

The only "license-war" seems to be AOO people complaining that the AOO license change makes it impossible to take code from LO to AOO.

The AOO license change was after LO was started, so for me as bystander this doesn't look like something where anyone could blame the LO developers.

What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 9, 2016 14:38 UTC (Fri) by jimjag (guest, #84477) [Link]

>Jim, you are the only one who is harping the license topic all the time.

Even a cursory review of the various related thread show that this is simply untrue.

What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 9, 2016 15:26 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (2 responses)

> > 4. It is sad when we in the FOSS community degrade ourselves to simple, base license-wars.

This dicsussion is not about the license. Not primarily, anyway.

> Jim, you are the only one who is harping the license topic all the time.

Wrong.

That being said, as of today the permissiveness of the license is (IMHO) the only reason somebody would decide to participate in AOO instead of LO … assuming there's a material advantage of doing so, which I doubt when considering AOO's shortcomings.

What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 9, 2016 16:27 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> That being said, as of today the permissiveness of the license is (IMHO) the only reason somebody would decide to participate in AOO instead of LO

In the HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12456071) I saw another reason: the developer already being used to and comfortable with how the ASF works.

What's next for Apache OpenOffice

Posted Sep 10, 2016 3:45 UTC (Sat) by zorro (subscriber, #45643) [Link]

It is the opposite for me. Why would I contribute code under a license that allows my code to be taken and sold without any reward or benefit for me?