甲骨文放弃OpenOffice

[vikyzhang]

Rock, Paper, Community: Oracle Gives up on OpenOffice
甲骨文放弃OpenOffice
posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Apr 2011 21:27 UTC
发表于：2011-4-18 21:27 UTC

Over the weekend, Oracle basically announced its defeat in the competition with the community-created fork of OpenOffice, LibreOffice. Oracle will cease all commercial development of OpenOffice, and will turn it into a purely community-based project.
上周末，甲骨文宣布，它在与LibreOffice——由社区创建的OpenOffice的衍生软件——的竞争中，彻底败北。甲骨文将终止对OpenOffice的所有商业开发，并将其转为基于纯社区版。

When Oracle acquired Sun, they didn't really know how to handle the already troublesome community aspect of the software suite. There were already a number of problems when Sun was handling the project, and Oracle didn't really address any of them. A number of community members had enough, and decided to fork the project into LibreOffice, governed by the then newly-formed Document Foundation.
当甲骨文收购Sun之时，他们并没有真正懂得如何管理好该软件套件已经问题重重的社区方面。该项目由Sun在管理之时，已经出现了许多问题；而后来的甲骨文，一件也没有真正处理过。许多开发者受够了，他们决定从项目衍生出LibreOffice，交由当时新成立的文档基金会（The Document Foundation，TDF）管理。

Just about every major corporate interest followed the fork, leaving Oracle as pretty much the only one still investing in OpenOffice.org. Oracle then proceeded to make everything worse by not accepting an invitation from The Document Foundation, and by pressuring people with leadership roles in the OpenOffice project to step down if they involved themselves with TDF.
随后几乎每一个大公司都转向了LibreOffice，留下甲骨文几乎唯一的一位OpenOffice.org投资者。之后甲骨文做了几件更糟的事情——拒绝接受文档基金会的邀请，并给OpenOffice项目中参与TDF的领导角色施加下台的压力。

Now, though, it would seem Oracle has realised that it fighting a losing battle. "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis," said Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle, "We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format."
不过，今天，看来甲骨文意识到了它的失败。“考虑到对自由的个人生产性应用（free personal productivity applications ）的巨大兴趣，和急剧进步的个人计算机技术，我们相信OpenOffice.org将最适合被一个在非商业基础之上专注服务最广大受众的组织管理，”甲骨文首席公司构建师（chief corporate architect ）Edward Screven说。“我们期待马上开始与社区成员的合作，深化Open Office持续不断的成功。甲骨文将继续强力支持基于开发标准的文档格式如开发文档格式（the Open Document Format）的广泛采用。

Translation: "we thought we didn't need that stupid community, and we thought we could do everything alone. Now, we are going to spin this as something good by claiming we're going to hand over OpenOffice to the community, even though we technically are giving it back to the community."
翻译：“我们原以为我们不需要那一愚蠢的社区；我们以为我们可以独自完成一切。而今，我们将要对外‘慷慨地’宣称我们将把OpenOffice移交给社区，事实上，从技术上说，我们是在将其归还给社区。”

英文原文：http://www.osnews.com/story/24649/Rock_ ... OpenOffice
译文原文：http://www.linux-ren.org/modules/newbb/ ... 0&forum=72
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[acer4740]

可怜的open office啊，

[qy117121]

死了啊，没用过

[月下叹逍遥]

提前换了

[ooinzaghi]

开源的力量是无敌的