From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 15:52:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED66106566C for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (lax-gw16.mailroute.net [199.89.0.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380D88FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA53A5BC24A; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:48:45 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from gw16.lax01.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.116]) by localhost (gw16.lax01.mailroute.net.mailroute.net [127.0.0.1]) (mroute_mailscanner, port 10026) with LMTP id Jo7MBR0PH5Wj; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:48:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by gw16.lax01.mailroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ECA5BC3CD; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:48:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A54DA27B0; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:48:38 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Alejandro Imass References: x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.10.5; tzolkin = 5 Chicchan; haab = 8 Xul Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:48:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Alejandro Imass's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:18:17 -0400") Message-ID: <86y5mfiwfd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Wojciech Puchar , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:52:47 -0000 >>>>> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Imass 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 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion