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Sun Urged to Give Up OpenOffice Control

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the set-my-people-free dept.

inc_x writes "Developers from OpenOffice.org are urging Sun to set the project free and bring it under a foundation. Sun's dominance over the project makes other companies such as IBM, Redhat and Novell reluctant to contribute more. Both Mozilla and Eclipse managed to attract an increasing number of developers after the projects were moved over to an independent foundation."

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  1. Re:should happen by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't see the problem.

    I do.

      they cant take all the developers work and sell it as theirs.

    THAT is the problem they are having. Everyhing submitted under the GPL by others is NOT THEIRS TO SELL.

    If they want to take the current code and do what they want, then fine. but they cant take all the free programming, wrap it up and call it theirs if they release it.

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