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Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator

Posted by samzenpus on from the final-destination dept.

Julie188 writes "Oracle has finally officially spilled the beans: It's proposing OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project — and not handing it to The Document Foundation. Oracle had announced earlier this year that it would be passing the torch to the community, but failed to provide any specifics about the ultimate destination. The Document Foundation is the organization behind the OpenOffice fork, LibreOffice."

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  1. Re:Choices are good, but... by eln · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's too late for that. The egos in both organizations are entrenched now, merging would be very difficult.

  2. Re:Choices are good, but... by stating_the_obvious · · Score: 2, Insightful

    my point isn't/wasn't focused on ASF -- I'm talking about the software OO vs. LO. At this point, LO appears to have a broader support base of active developers and the LO software has made a number of improvements since forking that makes it (arguably) a better platform to build from once the community unforks.

    I'm sure that ASF/incubator can do a fine job of managing OO, but since they will (if they accept) inherit lesser software and a weaker community, the onus would be on them to consider joining TSF...

  3. Re:Choices are good, but... by TemporalBeing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, LO/TDF didn't instill much confidence at least in me that they were going to be better than what they cried fowl with per Oracle - the only difference being they didn't require copyright assignment. So I am quite pleased to see ASF receiving OOo, and hope it does very well there. I'm sure it will pick up steam and again become the de facto driver of OOo and its derivatives especially as this brings great clarity to what is going on with OOo - something that has been lacking since LO split, and probably the main driver behind the loss of momentum behind OOo itself.

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  4. Re:Good, now make two versions by powerlord · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good, now make two versions, one International version and one US version.

    The international version should be the gold version, with the US version a crippled version which honors all the software patent follies going on in the US.

    The rest of the world should just ignore their sissy talk.

    Let us hope that Apache don't respect US software patents outside the US.

    OK as long as the US users can d/l the gold version.

    But ... but ... then your Web Browser would be a circumvention device!

    That could NEVER be allowed to happen!

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  5. Re:Interesting move by devent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is LibreOffice not recognizable or not pronounceable?
    I would rather see to take all the good parts out of OpenOffice into LibreOffice that could not have been done before and just end OpenOffice. Now that the main development will be coming from TDF anyway and all the distributions are going for LibreOffice, there will be more confusion if LO would end and OO would be resurrected.

    I see the turn more like a political one. The Apache Foundation criticized Oracle for Java and left the JCP EC, now Oracle is giving them something to come back maybe? And at the same time punish the TDO for forking OpenOffice by giving OO to Apache and as such not recognize TDF as a legit successor.

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