Re:Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
by naner on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @04:18PM
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Honestly, it seems like they're just pragmatically dumping projects they don't want or can't make a profit off of.
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.