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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. :)

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