Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave 589
Elektroschock writes "In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."
Oracle doesn't approve? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oracle doesn't approve? (Score:3, Funny)
If the Oracle doesn't approve, secretly create an army of 300 of your best men.
Including Ephialtes S. Raymond?
Re:Reminds me of XFree86 vs XOrg (Score:4, Funny)
openSUSE is switching as well [opensuse.org]. Not surprising, as they were shipping go-oo before.
Re:I'm shocked. (Score:3, Funny)
i'm not sure how tacking an english word onto a Spanish one makes sense.
Colorado River?
Re:I'm shocked. (Score:5, Funny)
>>LOffice
>How about LOLffice?
I maed you a documents ...but I ated it. ;_;
Re:painful (Score:4, Funny)
Exactly. Just like your post, their chat messages were incomprehensible and irrelevant.
French (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm shocked. (Score:3, Funny)
How about StarOffice for a name?
Sounds bloated and slow.
FuckYouOffice Anybody? (Score:5, Funny)
LibreOffice is a fork of OO.org that was started because of Oracle's buyout of Sun. They asked Oracle to donate the OO.org name to their fork, and now Oracle has kicked them out of the OO.org community counsel. Hard to say if it's good or bad, but it looks to be the start of a fight.
FuckYouOffice would be a good name given the turn of events. And very counter-culture/rebellious.
In everyday usage, it could be shortened to FuckOff, like:
"What's that Open Source office suite you are using?"
"FuckOff."
"Wow, thanks. Gotta get me some of that."
or
"How can I convert this mysterious ODF document into Word format to read it on my Win98 computer?"
"FuckOff."
"Thank you, helpful person."
It's a name that could work well for FOSS.
But perhaps UpYoursOffice might be better because that sounds more like European-bastardized English and less Japanese than FuckYouOffice. But it's not as much fun.
Almost anything is better than LibreOffice. Obviously LibreOffice did not wind up with any of the marketing people in the divorce.
Re:I'm shocked. (Score:3, Funny)
Florida State?
Re:Oracle doesn't approve? (Score:1, Funny)
nope, Stallman and 299 ninjas
Re:Reminds me of XFree86 vs XOrg (Score:3, Funny)
Oracle's made a big mistake ...
That certainly is one thing they are good at.
Re:I'm shocked. (Score:3, Funny)
Lets just call it GayOffice then and get it over with.
Re:Oracle doesn't approve? (Score:1, Funny)
Stallman can't use ninja's, they aren't available in an FSF approved form.
Although, openninja.org just shows a blank page - maybe I just can't see them!
Re:Did anyone not see this coming? (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody likes Oracle. Some actually like Microsoft, but the actual Oracle FanBoi count is weighted on the negative end of the scale, so mighty the vehemence of it's critics.
I believe that the LibreOffice team ought to couple their efforts with those of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - and in response to Oracle, brand the forking venture: EFF-off .
up to no good (Score:3, Funny)
Depends on how you define good. They are doing it for the good of their stock holders. They are running a for-profit business remember.
Sux for us of course, but OSS was around before Oracle and will be around after. Consider this as a road bump, not a block.
Re:You don't get to decide. (Score:2, Funny)
Sir, there's at least one bug in your post.
Re:Did anyone not see this coming? (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, "FreeOffice" just sounds cheesy and crappy (since "free" typically has some bad connotations, evoking the line "you get what you pay for"), and stupid English doesn't have separate words for free/beer and free/speech, so I have no idea what would be a good alternative.
Freedom Office. Liberation Office. Independence Office. American Office.
Re:Did anyone not see this coming? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did anyone not see this coming? (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, Microsoft Office is American. Maybe they should call it "Unamerican Office". Make Joseph McCarthy the official icon. :-D