Oracle donates OpenOffice.org to Apache

I'd like to agree. In the end the high visibility of the new-and-improved OO.o project licensed to ASF and (in a way) sponsored by IBM may turn out to benefit LO in areas of the code where LO won't develop new or improved functionality, that is, areas where none of their developers feel an itch they need to scratch.

Only problem, historically, is that IBM has said they contributed some important code/features to OO.o. This, from what I've read, turned out to be a massive code dump -- no interchange or cooperation with those working on OO.o at the time, and the patches were against an *ancient* version of the code base, 1.1.5. If this is how IBM will contribute to the ASF OO.o project (and to LO), it may be of little use to anyone except their own clients.

Clemmitt