More translation is needed here, but things no longer sound very happy at openoffice.org.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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benasselstine
1 year 31 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago
conflict of interest
Yes, LibreOffice really is in competition with OpenOffice.org. Most users want a single office suite on their desktop. And only one program can open your .odf file when you double-click on it. Oowriter or lowriter -- which one will it be? In the world of competition, It will be the one that people prefer. In the real world it will be what their GNU+Linux distribution has by default. OO.org has already lost that battle.
The members of the OOoCC who are also on The Document Foundation really are in a conflict of interest. Oracle wants to know which booth will they stand in at a conference. Which software will they recommend to newbies. If they want to proselytize perfectly, they have to let somebody down. In the spirit of cooperation, TDF appears to be okay with that; while Oracle isn't.
That IRC meeting reads like hurt feelings. The spirit of cooperation in one way, from TDF to OO.org. The members in question could stand in both booths, and recommend both office suites to newbies. They can do what's best for both suites -- and the other members of the OOoCC (oracle employees) can acknowledge the conflict of interest and accept their help with thanks. After all, they're going to need it.
There won't be any confusion at all, when OO.org exits the majority of GNU+Linux desktops. Unless those Oracle employees can progress past the hurt feelings, it looks like OpenOffice.org is heading for a dusty place on a shelf beside StarOffice.
lozz
1 year 31 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago
"Competition" = a rat-fight
Yeah, Oracle just don't get it and never will. They define "competition" the M$ way: a rat-fight to the death, with the biggest rat getting the lump of carrion.
The whole Free Software Community needs to do what they should have done when Novell joined M$;
Get out fast and leave it for the rats to fight over!
Oracle's idea of "competition" is not the Free Software way. Let's get the fork out of there!
Balzac
1 year 30 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago
Good one.
Good one.