On 04/11/10 08:59, Justin Stringfellow wrote:
Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's
been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody
knows about that?
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/
"Open sourcers have seized control of the OpenOffice project and
product and declared their independence from database giant Oracle.
The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that
separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for
OpenOffice away from a single company.
Oracle had been OpenOffice's principal contributor - a role it
inherited thanks to its acquisition of the well meaning but
slow-witted Sun Microsystems earlier this year."
I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Sun were not an especially good
nurturer of OpenOffice, and I expect Oracle would have been worse.
Hopefully this will give OOo a new lease of life. Or it it will die and
something better will replace it.
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