Wednesday, August 25, 2010
OpenOffice.org to be Oracle's next target?
Oracle, which recently acquired Sun, is shaping up to be the SCO of the 2010s (only worse, since they are a real, powerful company, instead of just a sock-puppet for the competitors of open source), declaring an all-out war on Free and Open Source Software. This PC World article suggests that their next step, after killing OpenSolaris and suing Google over Android, may be to kill off OpenOffice.org. Naturally "kill" here means forcing it to fork. Really trying to kill it would entail suing over potential patent issues, and any intelligent fork would be based in Europe or somewhere else with more liberal software patent laws than the US.
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