[ Thanks to Rex
Djere for this link. ]
“I have written many articles in the past about how
much I love OpenOffice.org. In fact OpenOffice is one of the
applications that first gave me the confidence to switch to
GNU/Linux six years ago. Today I downloaded and installed the
latest stable version of OpenOffice, version 3.2.1. This is the
best version of OpenOffice that I have ever used from a technical
standpoint. However, there were a few things that I noticed that
gave me great reason for concern. Based on what I saw, I have
serious doubts as to whether OpenOffice.org will continue to be
free software/open source in the distant future. Oracle seems to be
allowing forces that could be seen as hostile influence, or at
least interact with, the OpenOffice community. Perhaps more
disturbingly, they appear to be trying to distance OpenOffice from
the free software license under which it has propagated for so many
years.* The first very strange thing that I noticed is that it appears
that the installation forces you to install Microsoft’s Visual
Studio 2008 Free Edition when you install OpenOffice on
Windows”