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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 21:23 UTC (Fri) by shmget (subscriber, #58347)
In reply to: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation by kragil
Parent article: Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

Oracle has very little to do with that decision... they wanted out and had contractual obligation toward IBM (from SUN times)... so they did what IBM told them to do to be free of these ties...

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