News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Oracle to move OpenOffice.org to a Community-Based Project.

Re:Oracle to move OpenOffice.org to a Community-Based Project by lukeschlather on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:32PM (#2451585)
If Oracle was serious about this they would have reached out to Red Hat, Google, and the rest about repairing the LibreOffice fork.

Or just assign copyright on OpenOffice.org to the Open Document Foundation. This announcement smacks to me of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" but I'm not entirely sure why they would want to put resources into any of those things.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Oracle to move OpenOffice.org to a Community-Based Project by gst on Friday April 15, 2011 @03:45PM (#2451889)
Just read between the lines. This is not about giving OpenOffice.org to the community, but more about stopping in-house development on the project.

I guess they finally noticed that LibreOffice is quickly overtaking OpenOffice.org and that OpenOffice.org won't get them any money. Of course it does not make any difference if Oracle gives this project to the community: The _only_ interesting thing about OpenOffice.org is the trademark, for everything else there's LibreOffice.

[ Parent | on HN ]