[GRLUG] Linux Trends for the new year

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:20 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Happy New Year to all!

[snipped anything about Novell and OpenSUSE; I don't use it, never
have, and don't really know anything about it beyond the Linux
Standard Base and the Microsoft/Novell/GPLv3 noise.]

>
> Related questions - since it appears that Oracle is focusing on 'cloud'
> office services, will everyone be forced to transition to LibreOffice?

Of course not; there are a fair number of existing free client-side
alternatives for each of the tools provided by OpenOffice and
LibreOffice. Install KOffice or gnome-office for a couple options.

For a vendor, though, cloud services make the most sense; you can't
easily sell copies of agressively-free software, but you can rent
managed hosting for it. And for all the students that I've ever helped
who didn't have a backup, that actually makes a certain amount of
sense.

> What about MySQL?

I don't get Oracle on this one; they aggressively charged ahead with
alienating the community components of Sun's most popular products.
They're either slowly backpedaling on Java (Notably, asking the Apache
foundation to reconsider its departure) or they're testing the
behavior of the community under different management stimuli. On the
other hand, they just pushed out a new version of MySQL, apparently
under the same community license as the previous versions, and even
the *Slashdot* blurb didn't have anything negative to say about it.

If Slashdot can't find a fault with an Oracle move to put in an
article summary, I don't know what's gotten into either.

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