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Beware of Proprietary Drift
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
| announced yesterday a campaign to collect a
| clear list of OpenOffice.Org extensions
| that are FaiF, to convince the OO.o
| Community Council to list only FaiF
| extensions, and to find those extensions
| that are proprietary software, so that OO.o
| extension developers can focus of their
| efforts on writing replacements under a
| software-freedom-respecting license.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/05/08/proprietary-drift.html
FSF launches site for free OpenOffice extensions
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has
| announced that it will maintain a list of
| free software extensions for the
| OpenOffice.org open source office suite.
| Discussing the announcement, FSF executive
| director Peter Brown said, "OpenOffice.org
| is free software, and an important
| contribution to the free software
| community. However, the program offers the
| user a library of extensions, and some of
| them are proprietary. Distributing
| OpenOffice.org in the usual way has the
| effect of offering users the non-free
| extensions too."
|
| [...]
|
| The OpenOffice.org Community Council has
| since responded to the FSF, saying that
| they "believe passionately that FOSS
| delivers better software â including
| extensions, but that users must be free to
| make the comparison and reach their own
| conclusion," adding that, the council
| "regrets that the FSF was unable to accept
| our compromise proposals for a more clearly
| signposted extensions repository."
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FSF-launches-site-for-free-OpenOffice-extensions-996623.html
Much ado about nothing
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| When I was freshly elected at the
| OpenOffice.orgâs Community Council the Free
| Software Foundation approached us with a
| question related to our extensions web
| site. Basically they felt that we should
| not be hosting non Free Software extensions
| and requested we take those down otherwise
| they would open their own extensions site.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/05/09/much-ado-about-nothing/
Recent:
9 More OpenOffice Extensions
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| Moving all of your apps and information in
| the cloud has been adopted by a great
| number of people. However, there are also a
| large number who still prefer having a
| desktop application.
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http://maketecheasier.com/9-more-openoffice-extensions/2010/04/17
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