![]() ![]() “If we’ve learned anything at all over the last 30 years of computing, it is that monoculture is unhealthy.” Still, “I think a little competition here can be healthy,” he added. “Still there, but it wouldn’t cause any major problems if it was just removed.” ‘Monoculture Is Unhealthy’Īll of the energy today is in LibreOffice, Google+ blogger Kevin O’Brien opined. “Unfortunately, they did so too late, and now OpenOffice is the appendix of office suites,” he concluded. “With OpenOffice, the community rebelled, and Oracle was forced to concede. There’s actually “a current version in the Google vs. “It’s just another example of Oracle’s modus operandi.” Indeed, “OpenOffice is a dinosaur,” Google+ blogger Linux Rants concurred. “Having a single primary fork of the OO.o codebase would benefit the community most at this time,” Espinoza added, “because code can only go in one direction between the two projects due to license incompatibilities.” ‘A Dinosaur’ In fact, “Apache OpenOffice is not only obsolete, it’s annoying - if not offensive,” suggested Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza. “Oracle waited far too long to free the software for it to be relevant any longer.” ‘Annoying – if Not Offensive’ “OpenOffice is long obsolete,” agreed consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. “There has been vigorous growth of contributors and a high rate of production, whereas it has taken Apache nearly a year just to change the license of ,” Pogson added. ![]() “LibreOffice has demonstrated that it’s the right way to do IT/office suites,” offered blogger Robert Pogson. ![]() In the wake of Apache OpenOffice’s new update, that’s been the question du jour down at the Linux blogosphere’s Punchy Penguin Cafe. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. ![]() Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? ![]()
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