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https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_weight_behind_libreoffice.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_wei... Do I wa

by bitL 4y ago

https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_weight_behind_libreoffice.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_wei... Do I want to have a critical piece of open source financially dependent on Google with their conflict of interests wrt Google Suite or rather have it with Apache that has no other interests?

gjsman-1000 4y ago
> Do I want to have a critical piece of open source financially dependent on Google with their conflict of interests wrt Google Suite or rather have it with Apache that has no other interests? We really have no other choice. The amount of security bugs lurking in OpenOffice is substantial and is widely considered a major risk. OpenOffice no longer has the manpower to find them or keep track of them. There's a reason why almost all Linux distributions have abandoned it for LibreOffice. OpenOffice is quite literally dead. It's like saying I'll stay on Linux 1.0 because that's before IBM started sponsoring it - the battle is completely lost. As for funding, Google is almost irrelevant considering all the other people on the Advisory board, including GNOME, Red Hat, KDE, Collabora, and so forth. Even more funding is being provided by the new business partners who take LibreOffice and offer long-term enterprise support versions and contribute back, and there are four companies doing that (Collabora, allotropia, Adfinis, and CIB). Calling LibreOffice financially dependent on Google is completely unfounded at this time. Heck, when your article about Google supporting LibreOffice was written, Google Docs was much younger with far less chance of success. It could have easily ended up in the Google Graveyard and I don't blame Google for hedging their bet on it. https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/ https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board...
AuthorizedCust 4y ago
Who cares? If Google is malfeasant in its relationship with LO, then fork it. That’s how LO was founded, a fork born out of concerns of Oracle’s malfeasance in its relationship with OO.
linmob 4y ago
So… one 2011 article is enough to condemn The Document Foundation and Libre Office forever? That’s basically a century in Internet Years ago!
timbit42 4y ago
As evil as Google is, Oracle is more evil.

by bitL 4y ago

gjsman-1000 4y ago

> Do I want to have a critical piece of open source financially dependent on Google with their conflict of interests wrt Google Suite or rather have it with Apache that has no other interests? We really have no other choice. The amount of security bugs lurking in OpenOffice is substantial and is widely considered a major risk. OpenOffice no longer has the manpower to find them or keep track of them. There's a reason why almost all Linux distributions have abandoned it for LibreOffice. OpenOffice is quite literally dead. It's like saying I'll stay on Linux 1.0 because that's before IBM started sponsoring it - the battle is completely lost. As for funding, Google is almost irrelevant considering all the other people on the Advisory board, including GNOME, Red Hat, KDE, Collabora, and so forth. Even more funding is being provided by the new business partners who take LibreOffice and offer long-term enterprise support versions and contribute back, and there are four companies doing that (Collabora, allotropia, Adfinis, and CIB). Calling LibreOffice financially dependent on Google is completely unfounded at this time. Heck, when your article about Google supporting LibreOffice was written, Google Docs was much younger with far less chance of success. It could have easily ended up in the Google Graveyard and I don't blame Google for hedging their bet on it. https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/ https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board...

AuthorizedCust 4y ago

Who cares? If Google is malfeasant in its relationship with LO, then fork it. That’s how LO was founded, a fork born out of concerns of Oracle’s malfeasance in its relationship with OO.

linmob 4y ago

So… one 2011 article is enough to condemn The Document Foundation and Libre Office forever? That’s basically a century in Internet Years ago!

timbit42 4y ago

As evil as Google is, Oracle is more evil.