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    OpenOffice FORKED!

    http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osr...ets-Forked.htm

    And none too soon!

    I suspect that Ellison already has his lawyers sifting through OOo code to separate out that which is NOT under the GPL or other free licenses so that he can demand license fees for the use of OOo.

    The new fork is titled, aptly, LibreOffice, which I will now refer to as LOo.
    The new effort has the backing of all major Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu, as well as the support of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
    ...
    "We've taken a different approach with LibreOffice, instead of having patches floating around against the Oracle version of OpenOffice, we are the new upstream," Meeks said. "We're shipping a beta on day one and there are a number of things that need to be fixed."
    You can see the LibreOffice website here.
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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    Re: OpenOffice FORKED!

    dibl also posted something about it in Geek News OOO >>> LibreOffice.

    I guess this makes my fears concerning Oracle's plans for OpenOffice.org to vanish once and for all.
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      Re: OpenOffice FORKED!

      i have been waiting for this ever since Oracle bought Sun.
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        #4
        Re: OpenOffice FORKED!

        Just read this myself and was going to post! Yep, no big surprise and thank goodness. I hope maybe VirtualBox can do the same. I know not all of it is Open Source but they need to fork as well. My how Oracle has shown its colors!


        EDIT: Downloading the Beta now and will remove OpenOffice.
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          #5
          Re: OpenOffice FORKED!

          I was waiting for this too.

          The first thing Ellison did after he bought Sun was to put a $9,000 per 100 license fee on OOo plugins to Office, minimum 100. That would, effectively, eliminate OOo as a valid format option for Office users in Windows. Ballmer probably rejoiced in that news. Now, perhaps, a free LOo plugin can be offered for Office users.
          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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            Re: OpenOffice FORKED!

            Originally posted by MoonRise
            ... My how Oracle has shown its colors!
            The color of GREED is green, as in greenback$.
            "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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                Has anybody here signed their petition?

                http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/



                Edit: I wonder if this DEB located here is OK?

                http://gericom.wordpress.com/2010/09...novell-google/
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                  In exploring the unpacked deb packages I noticed a subdirectory, "en-US/desktop-integration/" (my eyes are getting bad! ) and when I cd to that directory and issued "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" I found, upon completion, a full set of menu options in the "Office" menu!

                  I've been playing with a bunch of LOo files and it is working perfectly. The only thing I haven't found yet is a PostgreSQL driver. I may try the OOo driver.

                  All is well in the garden!
                  "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                  – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                    downloading @ 41k... (they must be very busy...)
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                      Installed and seems to run smoothly! Glad to get rid of that one Oracle logo!
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                        Originally posted by GreyGeek

                        The new fork is titled, aptly, LibreOffice, which I will now refer to as LOo.
                        That's an old song.

                        Lost my partner,
                        What'll I do?
                        Skip to the LOo, my darlin'.

                        I'll get another one
                        Prettier than you,
                        Skip to the LOo, my darlin'

                        Skip, skip, skip to the LOo,

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                          [flush]
                          Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
                          "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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                            Any idea when the packages will be officially added to Ubuntu repos?
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                              #15
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                              Originally posted by Snowhog
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                              Yep, isn't that what they call it in England, the LOo!?
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