Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation

Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by nextparadigms on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:02PM (#2608792)

After they chased everyone away, now they just to just get rid of it and save themselves the hassle.They might as well donate all their Java patents to Google and save themselves another embarrassment.

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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by rbanffy on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:05PM (#2608811)

> They might as well donate all their Java patents to Google

Are you kidding?!

They could donate them to the FSF, ASF or any other non-profit entity dedicated to promote of free and open-source software. Donating them to Google would create a whole lot of temptations the folks in Mountain View really don't need.

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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by Kaizyn on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:40PM (#2608974)

But they have "Don't be evil" as a motto. How could they possibly be tempted by that?

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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by ascendant on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:05PM (#2609068)

Ok, we get it. Google is "evil". I'd pay $0.05 for every time someone wants to harp on this and DOESNT.

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