A discordant symphony

Last May, IBM announced the completion of its long-awaited contribution of the source code for its "Symphony" OpenOffice.org fork to the Apache Software Foundation. More than six months later, there is no freely-licensed version of Symphony available, and some observers, at least, see no evident signs that any such release is in the works. A look at the situation reveals gears that grind slowly indeed, leading to tension that is not helped by some unfortunate bad feelings between rival development projects.

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