On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:41:32 +0200 Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 02:26:57PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > > > We've cvs deleted editors/openoffice3, soon we'll import > > > editors/libreoffice. > > > > woah, they changed name? > > They forked and changed the name, because oracle is sooo evil. And now > they are disappointed that oracle refuses to cooperate with them ;-) > > > I didn't even know... And imho the name > > libreoffice sucks ;) > > Yep. Read like lib-re-office (whatever this could mean). > > Ciao, > Kili > From what I've read it sounded like the opposite. They asked for oracles position, they got little or no response and when oracle were asked at a talk the vague response was that taken as a negative. The developers have decided to change to libreoffice and have offered oracle to take part and donate the openoffice name and are hoping more people will contribute if there isn't a single company holding the rights. Libreoffice will apparently have less licensing restrictions and so can include more code which currently has to be downloaded seperately. Hence I guess libre as in free office. Let's hope it will be more free than FreeBSD. If we do have both it's certainly gonna push up the package builders time?
