[GRLUG] Linux Trends for the new year

[Bob Kline]

Students?  Professor Mol?  Where
do you teach?

Just curious - a.k.a. nosy.

   -- Bob


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> :wq
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