- Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable software#
- Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable code#
- Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable free#
The larger Apache project sees that the bureaucracy is still humming along and mistakes that for project activity. Committee meetings, minutes, votes, blog posts, and so on would continue. It still elects an "editor" and subsidiary roles, it has all these complicated structures designed to manage a huge encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of contributors even though days go past without so much as a single typo being fixed.Īpache OpenOffice is on the path to that ending.
People discuss rule changes, argue about policy direction, every part of the bureaucracy is functioning. But the bureaucracy created for it lives on. For a while cranks dominated certain corners, the health section was written by alt health nuts, people with crazy pet theories wrote history or took over articles about real things to discuss hypotheticals, but without an audience even that phase ended and the project itself is largely abandoned. Seems on the surface like a fine idea, there are some problems just beneath that surface and it wasn't a success. Hahahahaha" because that requires an expert to acknowledge the edit. Like Wikipedia, except bored middle school kids can't change the page on Elizabeth I to say "You eat doodoo. You can find plenty of projects where the bureaucracy lives on while its intended purpose is, shall we say, moribund.įor example Citizendium was a project conceived as a peer-reviewed expert encyclopedia. Unfortunately it is in the nature of a bureaucracy, like a war, to serve primarily itself. But, the bureaucracy has to exist to serve some larger purpose or it is futile. I assume he'll be retracting that shortly.
Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable software#
I recall, back when ASF was considering taking on OpenOffice, Jim Jagielski assuring people the ASF would have no problems keeping up to expectations on software for end users. The project appears to have time to post excuses to blogs (so many excuses!) and embark on call-to-action marketing attacks on a Wikipedia article, but not in the past five months to remove one file from the AOO installer and stop installing security holes on their users' PCs. 'Cos that's the sort of thing that definitely hasn't historically led to any fallout. This outraged the AOO "dev" list sufficiently that the esteemed Rob Weir tried to coordinate a marketing attack on Wikipedia, and on me personally, on a public list. I was sufficiently horrified to find yet another person running office software with a five months unfixed security hole that I wrote a blog post that is my biggest Tumblr hit to date. No, it's not a bureaucracy taking time - it's a bureaucracy with nobody to actually run it. Posted 18:55 UTC (Mon) by davidgerard (guest, #100304)
Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable free#
But this is, so far as I can see, the first time that the Apache Foundation has explicitly expended time, money and resources fighting directly against the free software community. You'd probably find a good few who would defend the second, with caveats. You'd be hard-pressed to find a high-profile member of the free software community defending the practises of the first party mentioned.
Apache openoffice 4.1.2 portable code#
Let's make clear what happened here: three extremely large and well-known vendors (Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Foundation) conspired against both the development community and the free software movement in general to ensure that said community's flagship office suite was fragmented, the purpose being to deny the proponents of copyleft (and vendors amenable to copyleft) of the trademark and associated goodwill of a piece of code that said community spent nearly fifteen years promoting and improving. It's more important for the Apache Foundation to squat on the OpenOffice trademark than for users to have good software, lest said software be under licenses ever-so-slightly less friendly to vendors who oppose copyleft. Jim Jagielski himself has argued (both on LWN and on the Apache lists) for this state of affairs to continue. It was pretty obvious to people paying attention that even when IBM were still paying people to hack on (A)OO it had no community buy-in, but the last six months have demonstrated that the Apache Foundation would literally rather that low-information end users get compromised than have them use maintained code. This ridiculous charade has to end soon (and almost certainly will: if it takes over six months for the current "development team" to put out the sort of trivial point release that LibreOffice puts out like clockwork then it's likely that this one will be the last). Posted 18:09 UTC (Mon) by thumperward (guest, #34368)
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