{"id":1053,"date":"2008-11-13T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1053-openoffice-to-become-adware.html"},"modified":"2008-11-13T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:34:42","slug":"openoffice-to-become-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1053-openoffice-to-become-adware.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice to become adware?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jonathan Schwartz\u2019s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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An auction’s afoot … to see who we’ll be partnering with us to integrate their businesses and brands into our binary product distribution – the possibilities are limitless: people tend to print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them (and I know this annoys my friends in the free software community, but branding allows us to invest more in OpenOffice.org community and features, from which everyone benefits).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

An alarming prospect. But OpenOffice.org<\/a> is meant to be free and open source. What does Schwartz mean by \u201cour binary distribution\u201d? Note he says OpenOffice.org not Star Office, Sun\u2019s commercial version.<\/p>\n

I presume it will be possible for others to step in and offer branding-free distributions of OpenOffice. I\u2019ll go for those, thanks very much.<\/p>\n

Contributors to OpenOffice.org put their trust in Sun and even assigned their copyright, supposedly to protect the open source status of the code. If Sun commercialises the free<\/strong> distribution (it can do what it likes with Star Office), that strikes me as stretching the limits of what people understand by free software. <\/p>\n

If Sun, by Schwartz\u2019s own admission, is willing to \u201cannoy\u201d its friends in the free software community, OpenOffice.org will lose a lot of momentum \u2013 I foresee forks and anger. A good day for Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n

Then again, I may have misunderstood. I\u2019m seeking clarification.<\/p>\n

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From Jonathan Schwartz\u2019s blog: An auction’s afoot … to see who we’ll be partnering with us to integrate their businesses and brands into our binary product distribution – the possibilities are limitless: people tend to print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them (and I know this annoys my friends in the free software … Continue reading OpenOffice to become adware?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,62,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-open-source","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}