[Nottingham] Forks!

[Martin]

Folks,

A few big forks or so have been announced!


OpenOffice.org forks:

OpenOffice.org forsakes Oracle, forms new foundation and fork
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/openofficeorg-forsakes-oracle-forms-new-foundation-and-fork/7445?tag=nl.e539

"...move comes just weeks after Oracle announced it would stop
development on another open source project it acquired as part of Sun —
OpenSolaris. (a new entity known as Illumos has assumed control of the
open source project)."

OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/

Welcome to The Document Foundation!
http://www.documentfoundation.org/
...created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community.



And Mandriva forks to spawn Magia:

Mageia – A New Linux Distribution
http://www.mageia.org/en/

Mandriva itself continues but has been reorganised with a large push
from some Russian backing.


See Distrowatch for a few details:

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 374, 4 October 2010
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101004#news


All a very good example of freedom and free choice and of why the GPL is
so important... It's all /our/ software...

More beer?

Cheers,
Martin


GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html


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