Only trolls publish links to point out their responses to other trolls.

When was the last time you saw a developer without 1 or 2 large external monitors? Airplanes and sleepy meetings...thats all the good any internal display is for no matter what the resolution.

more like Dead Man Crawling. I really wish Apache would put their resources behind LibreOffice so Linux could finally have an office suite that legitimately compares to MS Office.

Amen to that brother. Had to slog through 25 meaningless posts to get to the groklaw link...sigh. Slashdot seriously needs to rethink the moderation scheme here.

Thanks for the link. Your post is the first (and only) post on this entire issue that deserves a score of 5, Informative...

Given that the EU forced Microsoft to document their exchange protocols a couple years ago. In essence, they've already said that duplicating a protocol (i.e. a network API) is also not a copyright violation.

This is good stuff...

Now if we could just eliminate software patents....

No -- the capital investment at risk can, and usually does, represent a lifetime savings from of hard work. So the investor has their entire life history on the line where as the employee has only future paychecks on the line. The risk of the employee is nothing compared to the risk of the investor. If it were the same, then more people would start companies...but they don't because it is "too risky".

Of for God's sakes get off of the "I hate Unity" bandwagon already. Unity in 12.04 is finally usable and it'll only keep getting better. I work around kids and computers and the kids have taken to Unity big time....zero learning curve. Time to move on. Ubuntu has 20 million desktop users and will likely double that number this year.

As the COO of a company and avid Ubuntu user I find that this is the ONE issue that keeps our firm from going 100% Ubuntu on the desktop (we are already 100% Ubuntu on the server side). Support, management, desktop share, hardware compatibility...its can all be handled in one way or another. However, LibreOffice's lack of interoperability with MS Office and the weak capability inside are a total show stopper. I am not going to have a Windows VM on every Linux desktop, just to run MS Office and Google Apps is just weak sauce. Lets face it, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) is a great set of applications and people are used to that level of quality and feature richness. If I could change one thing about the Linux community it would be to configure it to make LibreOffice a HUGE priority going forward....almost on the same scale as the kernel itself.

Hoping for develop support to save them? Really? They should bet the farm on world peace...it has a better chance of happening.

Honestly, Slashdot...how does crap like this get a score of 5?

Because they own the company.

The people doing the work do get money, its called their salary. When the workers don't get any money its called slavery.

Bottom line? If you want to make more money, then start a company and be shareholder....just be prepared to take on some additional risk you aren't exposed to as an employee.

You are right...you are a dick.

Seriously -- Nobody actually believed Microsoft was going to do anything but screw over the user base, did they? Already have my Ekiga account...works well and runs on an open standard.

It was the end of the world as we knew it. The devs messed up our beloved KDE!! Game over, switch to Gnome. But then came several subsequent point releases and a year later KDE rocks and most everyone is very happy. Lesson? Sometimes you have to go backwards a little to go forwards. Hang in there, it'll get better...