Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache

The news that Oracle was proposing to donate the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) came as a surprise to many, though it probably shouldn't have. Many optimistically hoped that Oracle's plan to turn OOo over to an "organization focused on serving that broad constituency [the OOo community] on a non-commercial basis" meant that it would turn to The Document Foundation, which forked OOo into LibreOffice in September 2010, as the obvious repository for the code. But, for a number of reasons, that was probably never a very likely outcome. Click below (subscribers only) for LWN's look at what has happened and where things may go.

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