[smc-discuss] Bye bye to Oracle's Openoffice . Libre Office Launched .

[Hrishi]

+  http://geekybodhi.net/habari/libreoffice-what-s-in-it-for-the-users


On 9/28/10, Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Anivar Aravind
>
> <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Read More at
> http://techrights.org/2010/09/28/document-foundation-and-libreoffice/
> >
> > http://www.documentfoundation.org/
> >
> > Anivar
>
>
> ഇതിന്റെ കൂടെ ചേര്‍ത്തു വായിക്കേണ്ട ഒരു ലേഖനം :
>
> Are We Entering the Golden Age of Forks?
>
> http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/09/are-we-entering-the-golden-age-of-forks/index.htm
> [...]
> "So what's going on - why the sudden flood of forks? I think this
> indicates that we are entering a new phase in open source, and that
> the multi-year honeymoon for companies seeking to make money from free
> software is over.
>
> Of course, making money from free software is perfectly legitimate, as
> Richard Stallman has emphasised many times. But that does not mean
> that such companies do not have responsibilities towards the coders
> and communities that support them. Moreover, simply abandoning
> software projects because they no longer fit into the latest flavour
> of corporate strategy is not a good way to win friends in the open
> source world. If such projects don't fit with that strategy, the
> solution is to help them to become independent, not simply to chuck
> them away like old boots."
> [....]
>
>
>
> -Santhosh
>
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Regards,
Hrishi
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