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Corporate Arrogance

Okay, so I found out last night that a group of engineers and designers have broken off from OpenOffice.org (an Oracle project) to form a new group called The Document Foundation.  They have created another version of the Freeware ... LibreOffice.

Being a good bunch of folks, ."..Oracle was invited to become a member of the Document Foundation, and was asked to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project ...  Oracle instead rejected the project and demanded that all members of the OpenOffice.org board involved with it step down."  This is corporate arrogance.

As a result, I have removed OpenOffice from all our systems and replaced them with LibreOffice.

When you uninstall OpenOffice they will ask you to take a brief (and it really is brief, 4 questions) survey.  The last question asks for additional information.  Take the above "Oracle ... down." and put it there.  Hopefully (but doubtfully), they will realize their mistake.  Either way, they will know where and why you left them behind.


LibreOffice ... FTW!

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