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Oracle in the center of controversy despite their press release, which says, continue to support you and release OpenOffice.org as an open source project. Recently, Oracle has been vilified by bloggers and the press for survey members of document Foundation to withdraw from OpenOffice.org due to potential conflicts of interest.

Dave Neary, a respected GNOME and GIMP developers suggests that rush to judgment is not only disease course but possibly incorrect. In a recent blog post, Neary said the withdrawal request was made by long-term OpenOffice.org developer and Community Manager – from corporate Oracle. He further explained that there is a "Proposal" none voted decision."There was no decision to expel anyone" and the proposal even consensus win, although there is a significant gap between OpenOffice.org of Council and members of the document says Foundation.Neary many volunteers are confused and feel how you must make a choice between the two.

In fact, Neary continue to point out that the document Foundation have instigated the whole thing may by implies that OpenOffice.org is entwickelt.Weitere, was not managed and right in the OpenOffice.org use want name to replace the document Foundation which showed it to OpenOffice.org. And many believe that you will ultimately be.

Already some long-term contributors are whether the proposal Oracle or not secured was eliminated. Friday 22, Charles H. Schulz said his resignation in a blog post.He said it grieved him to resign, but was a relief due to the voltage at OpenOffice.org lately.He said the proposal and subsequent behaviors and discussions were unprofessional and showed a complete lack of understanding of free and open source Software.Er and others have stated that both projects will now lose due to a competitive atmosphere of collaboration sought, aus.Schultz said the LibreOffice now official fork will be as Oracle et al. "refuse, play ball" with the document Foundation.Schultz will continue the document Foundation.

In addition, former OpenOffice.org have Christoph Noack, product development representative, Florian Effenberger, former OpenOffice.org project manager, marketing and Thorsten Behrens, project manager for the graphic layer system, also resigned and regretting about the Division of the two projects.

An interview with Muktware.com a representative from the document Foundation specifies that your first stable version of LibreOffice coming in November wird.Obwohl it is at that time very little deviation from OpenOffice.org version 3.4 begin to "New developments and features."OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 release candidate 2 October 25 arrived.

While many were relieved to document Foundation and LibreOffice as safe guard against OpenOffice.org suffer the formation of the fate of the OpenSolaris hear the both projects and ultimately any OpenOffice.org users possibly due to the separation of talent could lose heraus.Es will be interesting to see the resulting products in a year or two sein.Wettbewerb can spark brilliant ideas, let's hope, this is the case for these two projects.

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Oracle Confirms Committment to OpenOffice.org
Oct 14, 2010, 23 :03 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (338 reads)
(Other stories by Susan Linton)

"During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . Oracle also stated they would continue developing, improving, and releasing OpenOffice.org as open source software.

"As ODF celebrates its fifth anniversary, Oracle said they applaud its efforts and renewed their committment to OpenOffice.org. "Oracle's growing team of developers, QA engineers, and user experience personnel will continue developing, improving, and supporting OpenOffice.org as open source, building on the 7.5 million lines of code already contributed to the community."

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OK, I recognize and appreciate the tremendous contributions of open source software.  I really do.  I use it every day and have done so for many years.  I person from the word go a Linux.  But I work for a Windows shop.  All Windows, all the time.  So, to fill my time sheet to get paid, or all change tracking in a Microsoft 2007 proposal document to follow, I have to run Windows, as the company the I for work 100% Windows software used for your business.

 I will accept.  And make sure I can fill my time sheet, and track all these changes in MS Word documents, I run Windows in a virtual machine.(By the way, I did also use open Office, for years, but OO isn't 100% compatible with MS Word.Es is not always too fast with changes track, and I can not count have wasted hours I try to do something other than the dog dinner of an OO presentation look when displayed in MS PowerPoint.)

Back to the question: for my virtual machine, I used to use to VMWare, but I switched over to Sun (now Oracle) VirtualBox some years ago.In general I quite happy with VirtualBox.Ich the latest run patched version of Windows XP in it; it has 2-D hardware acceleration, sound, virtual networking, etc so that you can say in fact that you are on a virtual machine if you use it.  

 However...

Today I ran it the one apparently persistent, long-lasting bugs in VirtualBox, which threatens to derail my productivity for at least a few hours.Here is the background: I created the VirtualBox VM that I am currently with about 3 years.At that time it seemed like a fixed 10 GB virtual disk drive C: XP in VirtualBox use a good idea, if I it building war.Fragen not why it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 How my virtual disk C: turns out though, in the three years I have used this virtual disk image, successive software installed and upgrades have completely until to the edge gefüllt.Ich noticed that my automatic SP2 upgrade to MS Office 2007 fail kept because not enough space on the device available needed a larger virtual drive pay.

  After a pretty extensive search I found what apparently had found experience this problem else to exactly the richtige.Jemand a fix, and then took the time to write it, use other (thanks, Nick!) here is the link that nicely described how to copy a virtual system disk on a larger virtual system disk.

http://www.modhul.com/2008/10/21/re-Sizing-a-VirtualBox-Virtual-Disk-Image-File/

Oh, and here is the catch:

How is that a catch you questions?Well, it turns out that it has a bug or two in VirtualBox for years which can (usually not apparently) prevent that a user delete snapshot files in virtual machine.

Yes, I use snapshots, why not me?Snapshots roll back to a previous instantiation of your VM.Nehmen can specify we, your Windows VM gets a virus.No problem: Roles took back you to the snapshot a few weeks.No more virus.Now patch against that particular virus.

Conclusion: I am now not able to successfully my small virtual drive c on a larger disk copy because the resulting copy, in fact, is wonky.

Now, I clearly say: I'm not gedacht.Es complain about Sun's maintainer (now Oracle) is free software, I am grateful to %s.keeping is an excellent Produkt.Ich generally from the perspective of being a developer and maintainer remind me of free software (see this previous LJ articles a description of one mean FOSS packages): create and manage open source software is a royal pain in the kazoo. Working with limited resources, and everything you always seem to hear is complaints.

Let me therefore say "thanks, VirtualBox developer and maintainer for us this far."I am sure that you already haben.Ich will much kazoos to like to find out a Meatball surgery approach, to me from this latest catch 22.Und then I have the solution to write.

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