Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:48:38 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD Message-ID: <86y5mfiwfd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHieY7RipnKi3_Pb4mrCC8927AYDrsGquEj10_UeLOtCARzJxA@mail.gmail.com> (Alejandro Imass's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:18:17 -0400") References: <CAPXba0YzS98C5mqXnNMfn%2BPL1wyc9stSa4r8NU2LGCq%2BmkMPpA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207191310430.15515@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAHieY7R=Q1ynomVWkRbUqN1caY47gKPYcSpKxDp8-1P69Lwz8A@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207191400520.15677@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAHieY7RipnKi3_Pb4mrCC8927AYDrsGquEj10_UeLOtCARzJxA@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> writes: Alejandro> Yes, but not before creating a big mess, stagnating Alejandro> development and forcing the core team out of Oracle to create Alejandro> LO and I guess [pure speculation] that in the end it Alejandro> backfired and Larry (aka "we'll simply take it") was left Alejandro> with no resources to maintain it and had no choice but to let Alejandro> it go, maybe in an attempt to save face, who knows. Repeat story with Hudson (Jenkins) and MySQL (MariaDB) and OpenSolaris (Illumos). The only good thing they seem *not* to have screwed with is VirtualBox. Maybe they haven't discovered they own it yet. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
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