OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice 648
Google85 writes "The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company. From now on, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers. Driving home the changes, the OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation, while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice."
Say that ten times fast (Score:3, Funny)
Lee Burr Office? Glad it's temporary. Sounds like something said drunkenly to a cop after getting pulled over.
Re:It's all in the name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Awesome News for Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
# apt-get install ms-office
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ms-office
Hate the name (Score:2, Funny)
I'm known among friends and coworkers for constantly suggesting that people leave MSOffice and go to OOo.
You can be sure I won't be promoting going to the LOo nearly as aggressively.
Re:Weird sounding name (Score:5, Funny)
More importantly, by choosing a name that lots of English speakers won't even know how to pronounce, they've isolated themselves even more. They'd have done better if they'd chosen an abstract name like "Firefox" or "Apache."
Lee Bray Office? Sounds like an evangelical preacher's fundraising department.
Make the mascot a Zebra, and the English speakers will suddenly pick up on it.
"I have to finish my book report by tomorrow, but I've only got the files, no Microsoft Word."
"Here, I know where to get a cracked copy."
"Stop right there, children!"
(together)"Wow! It's the Libre Zebra!"
"That's right, and I'm here to tell you about LibreOffice, a free office suite that promotes the gnu values of liberty, justice, and apple pie!"
(together)"Thanks, Libre Zebra!"
Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? (Score:1, Funny)
Shed a tear for PostgreSQL
Re:It's all in the name (Score:5, Funny)
Well it's not really that I like or use it (I'm a latex guy...), but I enjoyed being able to put "experience in Oracle's OpenOffice.org" on my resume. Helps get it past HR goons who only grep for a few words. ;)
MOOo (Score:3, Funny)
Shoulda kept it simple and just called themselves "MegaOpenOffice.org" or something.
NachoLibreOffice (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's all in the name (Score:2, Funny)
I'm just saying OO already had a mountain to climb without its supporters attaching heavy weights to its backpack. Or, erm, something.
This is Slashdot! It's "OO already had a mountain to climb without attaching a trailer to their truck".
Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? (Score:4, Funny)
We're not French and the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil.
No, but if you're talking about the United States, the percentage of the population that understands Spanish (sometimes exclusively) is quite high. If you're talking about the world, the percentage of people that understand French and/or Spanish high enough too. Also, it's quite close to libere, which is Latin (and Italian).
If you end up having trouble explaining what Libre means to an American, just say "like in Nacho Libre" If they didn't understand libre, they'll be excited to use software associated with a Black Jack movie.
FINALLY! We can focus on the features that matter (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh no! (Score:3, Funny)
Summary also mentions it as being a transitional name. I really hope they come up with something better. Even something stupid like NotOffice or SlightlyShittyButFreeOffice would be preferable.
Re:Awesome News for Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
C:\>apt-get install ms-office
Illegal command: apt-get.
Re:Only if you speak US English (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's all in the name (Score:3, Funny)
I think it would be great if they altered the name to Liberache Office and *then* did a UI to match.
Re:MOOo (Score:5, Funny)
I've got one:
"OpenOffice.org/index.html"
Catchy!
Re:Why the new name? (Score:3, Funny)
Not Freedom Office please... you don't want people to think is made by the French or god forbid liberated from the French.
Re:It's all in the name (Score:5, Funny)
Well it's not really that I like or use it (I'm a latex guy...), but I enjoyed being able to put "experience in Oracle's OpenOffice.org" on my resume. Helps get it past HR goons who only grep for a few words. ;)
Well you can still probably garner a lot of attention by just putting "I'm a latex guy" on your resume. :)
Re:Awesome News for Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh no! (Score:3, Funny)
I think they should go balls-out and call it Freedom Office, then go sell it to the USA government.
Re:It's all in the name (Score:3, Funny)
Not exactly grep, but Monica Goodling allegedly used this commend to screen resumes using Lexis/Nexis
[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!
Re:It's all in the name (Score:3, Funny)
It's French for "Free Beer".
My favorite example of this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? (Score:1, Funny)
I hereby propose and trademark the much-preferred name of UnoOffice(tm). Why? Because Uno is Not Oracle!
As long as we're being French... (Score:4, Funny)
How about "Sexy Office"? It's very French and has a nice mass appeal to it.
Re:Liberty Office Suite (Score:1, Funny)
You just did.. is there anyone you'd like to say hello to?
Re:It's all in the name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's all in the name (Score:4, Funny)
You are right, I had every intention of doing so and got in a hurry. I'll go stand in the corner if the internet with a pointy hat on.
Oh, god, not the robe and wizard cap again. :-P
Re:Death-- or revival? (Score:4, Funny)
It's like a dog chasing its tail. Until it is self-aware enough to realize it can already read mail, it will keep growing.