On Friday 24 Apr 2009, Linux Lingam wrote: > meanwhile, i've been thinking of openofice, and the whole ODF and > open-standards battle around it. > gotta hand it to oracle. they *never* dreamt of making a foss suite > like openoffice.org. sun did. > now what will oracle do with it?
Sun didn't create OpenOffice, they bought over Star Office from a German company and open-sourced it as Open Office. Since OOo didn't force developers to assign copyright to Sun (unlike MySQL), there is practically no way that Oracle would be able to make that into a proprietary product in the foreseeable future. The trade mark OpenOffice.org probably vests with Oracle today, so if they desire they can force the community to call OOo something else. No particular reason why they'd want to do that, though. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
