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It seems too early for them to be asking for this kind of money. They've only shipped one marginal improvement over OpenOffice. It doesn't make sense to me for
by mkr-hn 16y ago
It seems too early for them to be asking for this kind of money. They've only shipped one marginal improvement over OpenOffice. It doesn't make sense to me for them to toss down so much money formalizing such a new organization.
This also has some unpleasant implications. Imagine if a large portion of credible forks popped up on HN asking for money before they had a few versions shipped. It would be a mess.
- Garbage 16y agoThey might be able to ship "more marginal improvements" if they are well funded.
- benatkin 16y ago> Imagine if a large portion of credible forks popped up on HN asking for money before they had a few versions shipped. It would be great if we could have an argument about which of several credible OpenOffice fork organizations we could support. However, this search pretty much just turns up LibreOffice: http://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice+fork http://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice+fork If they're gaming the system by finding a significant gap in the market, so be it. (By the way, I just downloaded and installed LibreOffice and it works great, and there's no Oracle baggage. That counts for something!)