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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. Too late Oracle Bye Bye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have already uninstalled and deployed LibreOffice across our 500 client org.

    I will not keep bouncing about.

    We now fully back LibreOffice and will continue to do so. We will not backtrack back to OO until the next time Oracle change their mind.

    Bye Bye Oracle.

  2. The OpenOffice name/brand by Bloodwine77 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does it mean we can rename LibreOffice to OpenOffice now? Or are the two forks going to continue separate lines of development?

  3. Re:Outcry by Luyseyal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heh, no kidding. Every time I see it in dselect (shut up, I'm old), I think "What's lib reoffice, oh wait, that's libre office".

    -l

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  4. Re:let me translte for ya by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If what you say is true. Then why is LibreOffice already so much better than OpenOffice ever was?

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  5. A no win Battle by TrueSatan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oracle (and Sun before them) were, prior to the fork that created LibreOffice, able to prevent the additional features that were in their commercial Ooo derivative from being added to Ooo itself and thus had a product that they could monetise. Novel sponsored GoOo and that then offered code Sun (and then Oracle) would not allow into Ooo (mostly to "protect" those additional, commercial derivative only, features) and this was what first put the skids on Oracle's continuing support of Ooo. Once LibreOffice merged the GoOo code into their Ooo fork there was no real point in Oracle attempting to sustain hope for their commercial derivative...it has simply taken them a while to acknowledge its demise. As there's now no money in it for them their "handing to the community" of Ooo means little and may well come with the existing bylaws of Ooo that will preclude a merger with the Libreoffice fork. Out of spite alone (WaaaaaI If I can't play with my ball I'll take it away so nobody can play with it.) I can't see them making a merger of the two into a possibility.