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Comment on The Family Office revisited by John

John — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:29 +0000

@rob – I’ve not tried to show all the separate versions of OOo derivatives … it just gets too complicated!

Comment on The Family Office revisited by Rob Weir

Rob Weir — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:21:41 +0000

There were Symphony 2.x and 3.x versions. For these code was merged in from OOo 2.x and 3.x, respectively. So could represent that with two boxes for Symphony, or at least a line from OOo 3.x to Symphony.

Comment on The Family Office revisited by John

John — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:25:42 +0000

@jakob: blue is commercial software; beige is open source

Comment on The Family Office revisited by jakob

jakob — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:58:52 +0000

Why are there two colors or rectangle?

Comment on The Family Office by John

John — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:40:56 +0000

@ericb – as I understand them, OOo4Kids and OOoLight are specially tailored versions, aimed at special markets, rather than general purpose office software (“MS-Office replacements”).

I’ve also been shown Rob Weir’s similar “Family Tree” http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html which shows how complicated things get if you try and include everything. Even this mega-chart has at least one missing edition – BrOffice (OpenOffice.org rebranded for the Brazilian market for copyright reasons…)

Comment on The Family Office by ericb

ericb — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:12:42 +0000

I’m surprised OOo4Kids and OOoLight, far more famous than “White Label Office” have not been mentionned.

See : http://download.ooo4kids.org and http://download.ooolight.org

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Comment on The Family Office by John

John — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:22:14 +0000

@Andre – useful information, thank you. Revised version on its way…

Comment on The Family Office by John

John — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:04:17 +0000

@Aldi – thanks for the link. The computing industry has evolved so rapidly that 20 years ago reads like ‘ancient history’…

Comment on The Family Office by André

André — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:16:14 +0000

Hi John,

maybe some minor corrections:

- Oracle Open Office is (afaik) not contributed to Apache. Proprietary additions in OOO (like sharepoint connector, ldap based configuration management and maybe others) are not to be open sourced (at least I’m not aware of any public statement on that). So OOo is a “dead end”

- first Symphony versions had been based on “pre OOo 2.0″ code (some 1.9.x versions that still allowed SISSL)

- Symphony code has not yet been contributed to Apache (depends, if you want to show current reality or future intentions)

- WhiteLabel Office is under LGPL

- More recent NeOffice versions are based on OOo (or more correct on GO-OO) 2.x and 3.x