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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. let me translte for ya by poetmatt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, more like "wah! guys! please come back! we promise we won't spite the community!"

    This doesn't mean shit unless they change the bylaws which give oracle complete control over openoffice with the ability to nullify the community basically.

  2. Too late. by smcn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've already switched to LibreOffice.

  3. Re:Translation: They couldn't "monetize" it. by Asic+Eng · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be that as it may: that's good news. OpenOffice is a well established (and well chosen) name it will be good to have it back for the OSS community.

  4. Re:Forsks work aren't they by Anon-Admin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You dont have to blacklist the URL. Just strip all url's from any post tagged as TROLL. Should take care of the issue.

  5. Please, let's keep LibreOffice brand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if Oracle gives OO.org brand to the comunnity, I think it's a great opportunity to stick with LibreOffice and leave behind all karma associated with the OpenOffice age.

  6. Someone at Oracle just had an "oh crap" moment by TheSpoom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And this is how it got expressed. LibreOffice people, just keep doing your thing. You don't need corporate control.

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  7. Re:Translation: They couldn't "monetize" it. by fermion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think oracle deserves some credit for this decision. They looked at their core mission, they looked at their resources, and discovered they had a product that was not a good fit. In the case of Sun, openoffice.org was a small part of a solution for the desktop. For Oracle it was not. It was an asset that may or may not be worth something. It could have helped out the Java asset. It did not. So they let it go. They could have made an attempt to make money off it, and let the brand flounder and die. They did not. I think Oracle, unlike some tech companies, does not just randomly try things and let's products die, to customer detriment, when something does not work. They are pros. They have customers that us openoffice.org, that use the brand to give them some protection, and this gift was for them.

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  8. Re:Translation: They couldn't "monetize" it. by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this is more like "We really screwed up with the community, and now let's do the only thing possible to make them forget what turkeys we've been".

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  9. Re:Goatse by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Require good karma to allow link posting. You have to make some positive contributions before you're allowed to post goatse links. I think most people wouldn't mind the occasional goatse link if they required a few dozen insightful comments to build enough karma, and I think most trolls would get bored if they couldn't post them with a brand new account.

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