Hacker News Reader

In general I'm in favor of moving things out of Oracle's control, since they have acted as an untrustworthy partner in many places, but why not use the existing fork?

The article dismisses Go-oo as not having enough support.. Why not give them more, rather than splitting the community further?

View on HN

I believe one of the first actions of the new organisation was to apply all the changes from Go-oo, so it's not like they're completely splitting...

Michael Meeks and other Go-oo developers are on the board, as well.

So why do they need another name and another project?

go-oo.org wasn't a fork. It is an alternative build of the upstream code that includes missing plug-ins that were excluded from the oo.o build because the developers hadn't assigned the copyright to Sun. The go-oo build has been the default for most Linux distributions since whenever.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com