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Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache

Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache

Posted Jun 8, 2011 21:50 UTC (Wed) by sspr (guest, #39636)
Parent article: Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache

Strikingly similar to the whole Jenkins/Hudson fork (http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudsons-future): First bully the community Sun had built around a product (Hudson/OO.org) into a fork. Then some months later, donate same project to some foundation (Eclipse/ASF). Watch the fork doing considerably better than the foundation version (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=... very interesting read!).

LO was merging OO.org code in already. I don't see what changes with moving that OO.org code to ASF. They got their infrastructure, they are doing releases, they are being supported by major distributors. I hope/believe the LO community has the same momentum as the Jenkins one has.


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