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Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Posted Jun 3, 2011 0:47 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by iabervon
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

There are also reports that it's actually IBM that owns a lot of the Java copyrights.

So, seeing as Oracle may well have bought Sun in part for Java, they can't really afford to upset IBM if that is the case :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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