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Can someone give a coherent explanation as to why OpenOffice and LibreOffice should not merge?
by starik36 15y ago
Can someone give a coherent explanation as to why OpenOffice and LibreOffice should not merge?
- buff-a 15y agoCan you give a coherent explanation why the Republicans and Democrats should not merge? EDIT: Thank you, downvoters. I look forward to your excellent answers that do not involve politics and ideology. I'm sure you just downvoted me while you began working on your much better answers to the parent's question and I look forward to reading them.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"I look forward to your excellent answers that do not involve politics and ideology." I downvoted you for not adhering to your own standards.
- bluedanieru 15y agoI think he's implying that LibreOffice and OpenOffice will not merge for reasons of politics and ideology, rather than any technical reason. Strangely, choosing Democrats and Republicans to illustrate that point was probably a poor choice, considering.
- stephen_g 15y agoThe LibreOffice project hoped they would, but Oracle didn't like the idea... Probably the biggest thing is that IBM wanted it with a more permissive licence so they could keep selling their commercial product without giving away any of their source, but the LibreOffice project wanted to keep the suite as free software (which is why all the new code that LibreOffice writes is LGPL). As it is, OpenOffice at Apache will probably bitrot - pretty much all Linux distros have switched to LibreOffice (so that's where all the developers who aren't employed by IBM or Oracle have gone), and LibreOffice can use Apache code in their product, but Apache OpenOffice can't use LibreOffice's code - so they won't benefit from the massive cleanup that the LibreOffice project has done to the codebase over the last year, or the new features they have brought in.