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OpenOffice.org To Be Given Back To the Community

Posted by Soulskill on from the that's-what-it's-all-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Oracle has stated they will give back the OpenOffice.org productivity suite to the community. Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, said the company intends upon 'working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office.' Because there was a 'breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications,' the company believes the OpenOffice.org project would be 'best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis.'"

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  1. Re:Forks work, aren't they by MBGMorden · · Score: 1, Informative

    Goatse warning.

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  2. LibreOffice has better icons by Zandamesh · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first thing I though when I installed it was: woah, these icons look awesome!

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  3. Re:let me translte for ya by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would they need "the community" when most of the actual paid developers are still at Oracle. The people who left were mostly auxiliary people who were easily replaceable.

  4. Re:Read between the lines by jd · · Score: 4, Informative

    I suspect it's more a "what do we do with a brand name with a collapsing value and no product?"

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  5. You have issues that need addressed... by meosborne · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps your rant applies in *your* world, but it certainly doesn't apply in mine. The company I work for has been using OpenOffice.org quite happily for years. It does everything we need to do. We've integrated it into a majority of our workflows. We've felt no loss from not having either Microsoft Office or even Windows. Yeah, we're a double conundrum. We're a long-term successful business who doesn't use Microsoft Office or Windows. And we're not even a remotely IT-related business, nor are most of our employees computer experts.

    In short, I think you are completely full of it.