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Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave

Posted by Soulskill on from the pack-your-junk dept.

Elektroschock writes "In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks, Oracle asked the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest, which concerns the Oracle employees."

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  1. Re:Reminds me of XFree86 vs XOrg by gblfxt · · Score: 5, Informative

    seems ubuntu is switching to libreoffice soon.

    http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/future-ubuntu-releases-will-be-shipped.html

  2. Re:I'm shocked. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Suppose you spend over 10 years on making an awesome program

    Who exactly are you claiming did this? The people who originally created StarOffice, which became OpenOffice, worked for Star Division, a company that was bought by Sun. Since then, the contributions were roughly 80% Sun employees, 15% Novell, 5% everyone else. OpenOffice has been open source for less than ten years, so the only people who can claim to have spent 10 years working on it have been paid to do so by Star Division, Sun, and Oracle.

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