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Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by mbreese on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:32PM (#2608945)
It sounds to me like Oracle realized that they didn't quite grok community driven open-source projects and are finally starting to donate them to good homes (Jenkins to Eclipse and OOo to Apache). All it took was for the projects to go through the hell of major forks before Oracle realized what was going on.

It's probably too late to engender any kind of good will out to this though. They put both of those communities through hell. And neither of these products fall under an Oracle core-competency.

But I wouldn't expect the same result with either Java or MySQL anytime soon. Those are both things that Oracle "gets" and knows how to extract profit from.

Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by naner on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:18PM (#2609135)
Honestly, it seems like they're just pragmatically dumping projects they don't want or can't make a profit off of.
Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by carussell on Thursday June 02, 2011 @09:12AM (#2611804)
Better this way than the way most projects go.
Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation by mikey_p on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:54PM (#2609294)
Small nitpick, but Hudson was moved to Eclipse, not Jenkins. Jenkins is the community fork of Hudson.