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OO.o fork

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:41 am
by allix
Michael meeks blog mentions his disappointment with sun and they refusal to accept lgpl licensed contributions, he seems to of created a fork from it.

http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2007-10-02
http://go-oo.org/


Its pretty sad that Sun cannot imo appear reasonable, the community is still waiting for java, solaris and a shit load of hardware specs...
I agree they deserve praise with what that have brought to the table, its just not everything :P

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:11 am
by Patrick
Not surprising at all. This one been brewing for some time now. Doesn't the Novell version contain a bunch of customizations and tweaks?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:37 pm
by allix
Patrick wrote: Doesn't the Novell version contain a bunch of customizations and tweaks?
I think so , they do push there code upstream.
JZA would know more detail on this.