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Strip mining of OpenOffice.org
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Agreed. I got no beef with iBM. They are a pretty reliable defender/contributor to Linux. LibreOffice basically has all of OpenOffice but the proprietary IBM stuff. They don't need OpenOffice after the fork. Apache?!?! They need Linux/Unix/BSD as host OSes, but otherwise, what would they need to contribute??? This is a non-problem, looking for a non-solution.
Well, I think given all past discussion it was clear to any dev this was the drawback / risk of copyright-assignment to SUN.
I'm not sure if there's a non-problem, it's a bit sad the old project is fragmented now.
I'm not sure if there's a non-problem, it's a bit sad the old project is fragmented now.
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Yes -- IBM likes to make money, but, so far -- it's been a pretty good corporate citizen. Free software rocks, and the Apache license is a non-copyleft free software license, but one that is copyleft-compatible. it has to be -- the apache license is so important that apache compatibility was one of the required criteria in drafting GPL 3.