Comments on: No OpenOffice.org Fork, if Sun Relinquishes Control http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alice Maris http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2376 Alice Maris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:46:20 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/#comment-2376 I've watched OpenOffice go from a starving project with no users, to a global phenomenon, and we all ought to thank its current steward for staying the course. Alternatively, Novell's taken innumerable global phenomenon and turned them into starving projects, and signed an intellectual contaminant into its product stream. Personally, I trust Novell as far as I can throw them, and despite years of proprietary resistance, I give enormous credit to Sun for not only hopping the clue bus, but adding some gas along the way. I’ve watched OpenOffice go from a starving project with no users, to a global phenomenon, and we all ought to thank its current steward for staying the course. Alternatively, Novell’s taken innumerable global phenomenon and turned them into starving projects, and signed an intellectual contaminant into its product stream.

Personally, I trust Novell as far as I can throw them, and despite years of proprietary resistance, I give enormous credit to Sun for not only hopping the clue bus, but adding some gas along the way.

]]> By: John Drinkwater http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2375 John Drinkwater Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:12:57 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/#comment-2375 Anonymous: Shane doesn’t write the Not-Evil-Saturday stories, Roy does. Anonymous:
Shane doesn’t write the Not-Evil-Saturday stories, Roy does.

]]> By: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2374 Shane Coyle Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:15:08 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/#comment-2374 I apologize, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/09/short-break-idle/" rel="nofollow">Roy is on a well-deserved vacation</a>, and I forgot about "Do-No-Evil Saturday". I apologize, Roy is on a well-deserved vacation, and I forgot about "Do-No-Evil Saturday".

]]> By: Sam Hiser http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2373 Sam Hiser Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:27:41 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/#comment-2373 After years of Sun's recalcitrant attitude & refusal to relinquish its covetous control of the copyright- & code commit-processes -- in other words, refusal to run OpenOffice.org as an open source project -- it's high time the world looked elsewhere for a reliable & fast-improving alternative office suite solution which -- in addition to being wide open to the commons for contribution -- respects the natural imperative for a true universal document format which is not compromised by unbreakable ties to its application. Micheal is right; Simon is wrong...morally, practically, on any basis you like. After years of Sun’s recalcitrant attitude & refusal to relinquish its covetous control of the copyright- & code commit-processes — in other words, refusal to run OpenOffice.org as an open source project — it’s high time the world looked elsewhere for a reliable & fast-improving alternative office suite solution which — in addition to being wide open to the commons for contribution — respects the natural imperative for a true universal document format which is not compromised by unbreakable ties to its application.

Micheal is right; Simon is wrong…morally, practically, on any basis you like.

]]> By: Anonymous http://techrights.org/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2368 Anonymous Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:13:50 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/13/no-openofficeorg-fork-if-sun-relinquishes-control/#comment-2368 What happened to the "Not-Evil-Saturday" story? What happened to the “Not-Evil-Saturday” story?

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