The Document Foundation Launches €50K Challenge, Legal Entity Quest

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:02PM from the gotta-be-legal-gotta-be-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Document Foundation, the group responsible for forking the OpenOffice.org project away from Oracle's control and into the shiny new LibreOffice suite, has announced a drive to raise €50,000 to set up as a legal entity. The Foundation, formed by numerous OpenOffice.org community members tired of the overbearing hand of Oracle preventing them from progressing the development of the popular open source productivity suite, has passed several recent milestones. It's released a full feature-complete version of its LibreOffice productivity suite, and announced deals with companies including Canonical to have LibreOffice replace OpenOffice.org as the default productivity suite in several Linux distributions."

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Now they are free, but want SLAVERY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-17 19:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

When you create a legal entity, then corporations can sue!
If you keep to given/true name endorsing each component to peacefully ASSEMBLE naturally without a legal entity, then you are all untouchables in the public domain as endorsed by privateer individuals ready to in-state their claims to a Secretary of State when the Count(r)y Courts are overwhelmed by the misplaced Trust to the corporation United States (US Code 28, 3002 15 "United States" is a federal corporation) that perprestures it's many tendrils